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This will help if you installed an incorrect or mismatched driver. Problems can arise when your hardware device is too old or not supported any longer. Description Free Download. If it has been installed, updating overwrite-installing may fix problems, add new functions, or expand existing ones. You are correct that the Upload a File method will fail if a file with the same name already exists in the folder. If you want to overwrite a known file, consider using the Upload a New Version of a File method.

If you know the ID of the parent folder, you can use the Retrieve a Folder's Items method to get a list of the items in that folder. Each item will have a name property, which you can use for comparison, and an id property, which you can use in conjunction with the Upload a New Version of a File method mentioned above. Improve this answer.

John Hoerr John Hoerr 7, 2 2 gold badges 28 28 silver badges 39 39 bronze badges. I sadly think you're correct. I have to go with option 2 and scan all a folder's child items to see if the file exists manually.

Do you or anybody else know if the Box v2 API will make this task easier in the future, or whether it will catch up with the v1 overwrite capability? I don't think the Box API ever supported fetching or interacting with an item by path alone. You always had to scan the folder tree to get the item's ID.

Box API v1 did not support interacting by path alone. But it did support overwriting when uploading a file. Therefore checking to see if a file already exists was entirely optional.

It would be great if the v2 API had not lost this feature. The docs refer to the v1 overwrite capability here: developers. Updated, McVitas. Thanks for the note. Spudley k 39 39 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Box Consulting Your transformation partners. Box Shuttle Seamlessly migrate to the cloud. Box Transform Accelerate digital transformation. Product Support Keep business moving. App Downloads. Box Downloads Apps for secure file sharing and collaboration from anywhere.