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Daan L.'s avatar
Daan L.
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Sharing of folders inside the Apps/ folder

I have an application (madoko.net) where users rely on shared folders in dropbox to cooperate. However, I now need to give the application access to a users' entire dropbox and I would like to mak...
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Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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8 years ago
Hi Tim, unfortunately, no, using the Dropbox Business API doesn't change the incompatibility between shared folders and app folders.
  • Profitable Web 's avatar
    Profitable Web
    Helpful | Level 5
    8 years ago

    Thanks Greg.

    My objective is to allow multiple users read/write access to a folder to which an app also has access, without allowing the app access to a user´s entire dropbox. I believe that this is the objective of the majority of people on this thread.

     

    So, whilst an App folder would be the logical place for that to happen, any viable workaround would be appreciated. Is it possible for an app to write to a team folder via the API? 

    Recent reading: https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/9124

    • Greg-DB's avatar
      Greg-DB
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      8 years ago
      Dropbox API apps can write to team folders. Team folders are not the same as app folders though, and exist outside app folders, so the API app would need the "full Dropbox" (and not "app folder" permission) to do so.
      • hwl's avatar
        hwl
        New member | Level 2
        8 years ago

        I resolved this [for my purpose] by setting up a symbolic link within the App subdirectory of my dropbox folder to the shared directory in my main dropbox folder. I used mklink to create the link. Any changes to the shared directory are automatically linked to the directory within the restricted App folder. It is as if the restricted App folder is shared. 

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