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Brendan D.
11 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Wrong character case of folder name when calling listFolder using Sync API
I'm traversing a folder hierarchy and have come across a strange anomaly in the letter case of one of my folders.
When I call listFolder to get the hierarchy of my folders, everything seems normal...
Brendan D.
10 years agoExplorer | Level 4
I am syncing with a local file system because I needed quick access to local files and I also needed NSURLs to local files. I tried using just the Dropbox API, but then when I realized that I needed to be able to make a backup of my files and store them all in a zip file, I was required to load all the files one by one into memory, write them to a temporary location in the file system, then add them to the zip file. It seemed like it would become a huge performance issue. I'm often dealing with thousands of files in my app, so performance is critical.
Syncing with a local file system allows my app to do that in the background while the user can still interact with it. Then when it comes time to make a backup, the files would come from the local file system instead of having to potentially download from Dropbox and then deal with loading files into memory, then writing out files to some temporary location in order to add them to the zip file.
And also some of my files are SQLite database files and I can't tell FMDB to use a DBFile. I have to give it a path to a regular file on disk.
It just makes it much more complicated to work with files given the case can change even while referencing the same folders.
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