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Suddenly getting "no_permission/unauthorized_account_id_usage/" with add_folder_member endpoint
We've recently started getting different behavior from the API when calling add_folder_member. We're getting the error "no_permission/unauthorized_account_id_usage/". I've replicated it in the A...
Thanks for getting right back to me. This is with API v2. We're using CURL calls. Here for example is a CURL call that replicates the problem (with placeholders for the private stuff).
```
curl -X POST https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/add_folder_member \
--header "Authorization: Bearer <my access token>" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data "{\"members\":[{\"access_level\":\"editor\",\"member\":{\".tag\":\"dropbox_id\",\"dropbox_id\":\"<my user id>\"}}],\"quiet\":false,\"shared_folder_id\":\"<my folder id>\"}"
```
When I identified the user with an email address, it worked. Please let me know if this behavior will be fixed, or if we should switch over to using email addresses.
Thanks.
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox Staffadamb924 Thanks for following up. Can you clarify where/how you retrieved that "dbid" value that you're passing to /2/sharing/add_folder_member?
Yep, I got it from the account_id field in the value returned from my call to
https://api.dropbox.com/oauth2/token. (When I logged in as the target user.)
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