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Gregg W.1's avatar
Gregg W.1
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4 years ago

How to programmatically make files available offline.

I have a Macintosh app that does not use the Dropbox api - however, my users do save the app’s data files & packages in a Dropbox folder.   The problem is that recently users have been having file ...
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Gregg W.1's avatar
Gregg W.1
Helpful | Level 5
4 years ago

Thanks for the prompt reply, even though it's not what I was hoping for.

 

I thought a customer of mine had reported double-clicking on a 'Zero byte' png file and the file downloaded from the Dropbox cloud and opened in Apple's Preview app.

 

If that's true, what is Apple's Preview app doing to trigger the download that I am not doing?

 

If it's not true, then I apologize for the diversion. I'm still getting a handle on how to deal with the 'Zero byte' files.

 

Gregg

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Greg-DB
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4 years ago

Gregg W.1 That would be a matter of the Dropbox desktop client, but I can only really help with the Dropbox API itself, so I'm afraid I can't offer insight on that. You may want to contact support for help regarding the desktop client behavior. Apologies I can't be of more help in that regard!

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