niomsing.blogg.se - Keepassium dropbox

The common denominator between the two affected apps is that we seem to use the same approach for accessing files in Dropbox ( document picker + security-scoped URL bookmarks). So the issue affects other file types as well. The investigation led me to suspect a Dropbox caching issue, so I have published this post both as a bug report and an answer to my user For the purpose of this discussion, the app can be seen as an editor of special type of files (KeePass databases. The issue has been initially reported to me by a user of my iOS app (KeePassium). > For example, are you seeing this (and only) with PDF files or other file types as well?

I have not tried logging out-and-back-in to Dropbox app (this would invalidate Acrobat's reference to the cached file and hide the symptom, but won't solve the underlying caching issue).

I have tried clearing the cache in Dropbox app.

I have tried to "permanently delete" the file via the web interface.

The file is not listed in the folder, as if it was actually gone.

The viewer should fail to open the deleted file, saying the file does not exist.

The permanently deleted PDF file opens just fine!.

Open Acrobat → Home → Recent, and tap on the PDF listed there.

Open the Files app → the PDF is no longer listed.

Open Dropbox app → the PDF is no longer listed.

Check whether the file is gone on the iOS device.

Then open "Recently deleted" and delete the file permanently.

Delete the PDF via Dropbox web interface.

Long-press the PDF file → Share → (scroll icons left) More → Open in Acrobat.

Open the iOS Files app and navigate to Dropbox.

Specifically, files that have been deleted from Dropbox remain accessible to other iOS apps. There seems to be an odd caching issue with Dropbox app on iOS.