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What String to use in writemode update
My goal is to use SwiftyDropbox in my Swift iOS app to save the user's data and keep it synced between devices. I did this successfully by first deleting the existing file and then writing the update...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffUsing the "update" mode is safer, and so it is recommended. The value you supply in it should be the "rev" value for the version of the file that you last downloaded and are updating, so that the server knows if you are working from the latest version or not.
You can get the rev value from FileMetadata.rev, e.g., as returned by the download method.
Awesome, thank you! I kept seeing "rev" and not knowing what that reffered to. I will give that a shot.
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