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how to choose save location on downloadasync
seen the tutorial using dbx.Files.DownloadAsync(folder + "/" + file) but is there a way to specify saved file location? using c#
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThe DownloadAsync method offers a way to download files from Dropbox, but it does not save the file to the local filesystem for you. It returns an IDownloadResponse which has a few options to accessing the file data. Specifically, you can get the data as a byte array, stream, or string. Please refer to the documentation for more information on those.
There are a few examples of using these at the following links:
- https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/blob/d0b609bf7ca97051eb91f3802b49931389ba7404/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/Examples/UniversalDemo/UniversalDemo/UniversalDemo.Shared/ViewModel/AppImage.cs#L73
- https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/blob/d0b609bf7ca97051eb91f3802b49931389ba7404/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/Examples/SimpleBlogDemo/Controllers/EditController.cs#L50
- https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/blob/d0b609bf7ca97051eb91f3802b49931389ba7404/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/Examples/SimpleBlogDemo/Helpers/BlogHelpers.cs#L45
- https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/blob/b8f5c751f9df6765f4e2bbb98b39bc6bde5cfadc/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/Examples/SimpleTest/Program.cs#L407
Exactly what you do with the data is up to you. E.g., you can save it to a local file if you wish, using the .NET File API, for instance.
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