cloudinary_stream_wrapper looks for non-existent file on Cloudinary when saving new image

I'm currently making use of the "tmp" directory to store images before sending them off to Cloudinary.

When a user uploads an image, I'm noticing that watchdog is throwing multiple errors.
- Failed to load file
- Failed to get sub-folders under folder

I've narrowed down the problem to this function in the following file "cloudinary_stream_wrapper.module":

function cloudinary_stream_wrapper_load_resource($public_id, $options = array()) {
  // Load file resource locally first.
  if ($resource = cloudinary_stream_wrapper_resource_prepare($public_id)) {
    return $resource;
  }
  // Load folder first if public_id or options is empty.
  if (empty($public_id) || empty($options)) {
    // Return directory resource if public_id is a directory on Cloudinary.
    if ($resource = cloudinary_stream_wrapper_load_folder($public_id)) {
      return $resource;
    }
    // Return file resource on Cloudinary.
    if ($resource = cloudinary_stream_wrapper_load_file($public_id, $options)) {
      return $resource;
    }
  }
  else {
    // Return file resource on Cloudinary.
    if ($resource = cloudinary_stream_wrapper_load_file($public_id, $options)) {
      return $resource;
    }
    // Return directory resource if public_id is a directory on Cloudinary.
    if ($resource = cloudinary_stream_wrapper_load_folder($public_id)) {
      return $resource;
    }
  }

  return FALSE;
}

Before the new photo is uploaded, the module is searching for it on Cloudinary which is resulting in errors.

I've managed to get around the error by adding the following immediately within the "else" clause

if(cloudinary_stream_wrapper_resource_prepare($public_id) == FALSE){
      return FALSE;
    }

How can I get the module to not search for the image on Cloudinary before it exists there? Is there a better way to do this?