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Best practice to check if a folder exists in .NET?
Hi there!
I'm asking myself what's the best practice to check if a folder exists, because I made a fudge in the meanwhile and the performance is not optimal.
I'm giving the option to our ...
- We recommend using GetMetadataAsync to check if any particular file or folder already exists. It will return the metadata if so, or raise an exception you can catch if not.
GetMetadataAsync would also be better than SearchAsync as searching is subject to an indexing delay.
In either case though, there's going to be a race condition between checking (either via metadata or search) and then uploading. That being the case, check out the write mode options for uploading which offer different ways of handling conflicts.
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffWe recommend using GetMetadataAsync to check if any particular file or folder already exists. It will return the metadata if so, or raise an exception you can catch if not.
GetMetadataAsync would also be better than SearchAsync as searching is subject to an indexing delay.
In either case though, there's going to be a race condition between checking (either via metadata or search) and then uploading. That being the case, check out the write mode options for uploading which offer different ways of handling conflicts.
GetMetadataAsync would also be better than SearchAsync as searching is subject to an indexing delay.
In either case though, there's going to be a race condition between checking (either via metadata or search) and then uploading. That being the case, check out the write mode options for uploading which offer different ways of handling conflicts.
Can I have much brief description of the solution and also example related to it if possible. Thanks.
- Greg-DB
JayPatel1992 I see you opened a new thread with more details, so I'll follow up there:
That's so great of you. Thank you so much.
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