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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 make it a restricted application under Apps/Madoko. Unfortunately, currently users are unable to share folders inside the Apps subfolder.
Since the introduction of the recent sharing API I was hoping to see dropbox supporting this too. Is this feature still planned??
Thanks!,
-- Daan
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Hi Luke, Rich is correct, I can't make any promise as to if or when this would be possible. We try not to offer timelines in general, since plans can always change anyway, and we wouldn't want to have offered bad guidance if/when they do.
We have encountered this issue also. I need to share a folder within the APP folder to sync notes to an iPhone App with a coleague.
One of the workflows we were hoping to achieve with drop box was allowing our various reporting servers to automatically upload files to drop box so the team can access them. Since we can't share the app folder this workflow is completely impossible as giving the app complete dropbox access is a security issue.
The old (very poor) work around I've seen so far is creating a share link for the entire apps folder and giving that out to colleagues. But that is both a very poor user experience and has it's own security issues as we then can't segregate access to data from different servers.
Basically, drop box is useless for this and we have to stick with emailing the files :/
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- Rich
Super User II
Keep it civil, everyone, please. You can easily express your opinions of the service or company without resorting to abusive posts. Thank you.
Sorry I thought that behaving in an arrogant, rude, ignorant, Trump-like manner was the new normal for getting your point across. I hopefully stand corrected.
However, you should fix this or at least admit it is not a technical issue. Your management just doesn't want to do it and/or doesn't really care that your customers want it.
Oh well, I suppose I'll just use a full access account and create another DB account to share our folder with. We just have export spreadsheets that we need to share with an app so this should work.
Dropbox = Easy sharing with other people
BUTDropbox Apps Folder = Does not share with other people
Please fix.
+1
We use iStock and they have a feature to connect and upload directly to Dropbox... However only the 1 user can use this feature as photos are uploaded to their personal 'Apps' folder and we need the entire team to have access to these downloaded photos.
Use a team dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/9124
Hope that helps, Tim, https://www.profitablewebprojects.comFor this reason, I had to move my storage to another service (Box.com), even if it is slower and app access is less secure (full permissions).
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