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Lasse Hammer P.
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Dropbox SDK for iOS works on simulator, not on actual device

I'm making an app which relies on syncing files though Dropbox. It works perfectly (syncs, downloads, uploads) when running on the iOS Simulator, but when I run it on my actual device I get the co...
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Lasse Hammer P.'s avatar
Lasse Hammer P.
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

So it turns out permission issues with my chosen directory was the problem. Simulator just did not care about permissions, or does not use the same set of rules as the actual device as to where the user is allowed to edit the files. I got it working by using the default app documents folder, found by using applicationDocumentsDirectory() instead.

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