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YOUNGGON K.'s avatar
YOUNGGON K.
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Upload API's mode and autorename parameter do not work.

As you know, Upload API has mode and autorename parameters. I configured "mode" parameter as "add" and "autorename" parameter as true. But Dropbox did not return FileMetadata with new name although...
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Steve M.'s avatar
Steve M.
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10 years ago

Were the new file contents identical to the old file contents? If the content is the same, nothing gets changed and no new file is created.

See the documentation for WriteMode in https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http#documentation-files-upload:

"In some situations, the conflict behavior is identical: (a) If the target path doesn't contain anything, the file is always written; no conflict. (b) If the target path contains a folder, it's always a conflict. (c) If the target path contains a file with identical contents, nothing gets written; no conflict."

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