Sharing of folders inside the Apps/ folder

+1.

It's very disappointing that no attention seems to have been paid to this yet.  There are a class of apps for which personal linkage is perfect.  But there's another whole class of apps which want to use Dropbox for collaboration, and it's disappointing that this is only possible by granting the app access to the whole of Dropbox.

I'd be very happy if this became a third class of access - i.e. the existing 'appfolder' and 'full dropbox', could stay just as they are, and be joined by a new third class, "app specific folder" or "shareable app folder".

Assuming that the difficulty relates to the fact that any folder shared in Dropbox is shared at the top-level, my suggestion would be that in this new third option, the folder for the app would be created at the top-level, rather than inside the "Apps" folder.  Perhaps it could have a prefix, e.g. if the app is called "MyApp", the folder could be "app_MyApp" or similar.

How disapointng

Didnt you think before you started

"maybe our users need to be able to share an app folder."

and the answer you guys came up with was

"naaah thats not the point of dropbox.... who wants to share folders?"

Holy macaroni

I made an APP for some customers just to realize it will never work.

PLZ make it soonish

@Gregory

Please can you give us a vague timeline on when we would be able to share an Apps folder with with external parties.

This greatly undermines Dropbox as a cloud-based alternative to FTP.

+ 1.

Please can you give us a vague timeline

Dropbox generally does not provide timelines for upcoming changes. We usually find out about them once they're released.

Could really use this basic feature, this is crippling my workflow. Thanks

I've got an app for Dropbox where some of our customers require the ability to share the folder. I just recently switched to the app folder permission and now I'm having to go back to the full permission due to this crippling the work-flow of our customers. I'm hoping that Dropbox approves my new production request or allows app folders to be shared very soon.

Thanks for the additional feedback everyone! We always appreciate hearing from developers and users about features they need, especially with the accompanying context like that which has been provided here.

I thought when I saw the description of the Dropbox API v2 in the email I received yesterday that it will accommodate sharing.  I'm an end user and not a  developer so I'm not completely clear on this, but it seemed to be the solution.

Hi Rick, the new shared folder API functionality enables API apps to manage shared folders in linked accounts, but it doesn't resolve the incompatibility between app folders (created for apps with the app folder permission), and shared folders themselves.

+1