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Sheeja's avatar
Sheeja
Explorer | Level 3
6 months ago

Can we access/upload files to a shared folder that's outside my root folder programmatically

We have a requirement , where I have access to a shared folder which is placed outside of my root foler. I need to programmatically access/upload files/create sub folders inside this shared folder . ...
  • Здравко's avatar
    6 months ago

    Hi Sheeja,

    You cannot access something that is outside your root folder in any way either programmatically or not. Probably something confuses you. Any data should be available in your account folder tree before you be able to do anything there. Outside your root means either data stay inaccessible to you or not mounted/copied in your account.

     


    Sheeja wrote:

    ...We could access folders inside my root folder using the accesstoken+secret token combination generated by the App. ...


    Keep in mind that if your account is team account and with shared space, by default you have access only to your member folder and nothing outside! To be able get access to your root space and to all nested team folders/spaces there, you need to explicitly change your namespace - i.e. to change the default home namespace to root namespace. You can see if your home and root namespaces are different and which one is the root namespace using /2/users/get_current_account or equivalent SDK method (focus on root_info in the result). You may need to set the root with value of HTTP header Dropbox-Api-Path-Root or equivalent SDK method.

    Hope this helps.

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