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cmelbye on March 7, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dropbox Sync API

How did apps that used Dropbox handle it before this? Did they have to write a mechanism to sync data themselves?

mtrimpe on March 7, 2013 [–]

From what I know most apps directly wrote to your Dropbox via their API, so not to the local file system first.

That meant you either had to be always online, or you had to write your own caching & syncing mechanism.

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