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Mohammed E.
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11 years ago

Sync API and caching

Hello, I'm using the sync API to upload and download a drawn image across iOS devices. I've added a file system observer to respond to any file changes. However the API caching of the image seems ...
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Greg-DB
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11 years ago

That's correct, reading a file will always give you any cached content first, not blocking on the download of new content (unless there is no cached copy), so you should use an observer to know when the new content is available and update to it. You can find more information here:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/sync/start/ios#observers

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