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Akansh Gautam
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3 years ago
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Shared Folder Limit on Team Account

Hi Team, I am working on Team Account for development majorly on sharing folder and shared folders.   Code for sharing folder try: response = dbx_client.with_path_root( pat...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    3 years ago

    1. No, the count for this limit is only referring to shared folders, not unshared parent folders.

     

    2. The Dropbox API doesn't offer a way to just retrieve the current count with the Python SDK, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though. You can use sharing_list_folders and sharing_list_folders_continue to list and count shared folders as needed however.

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Greg-DB
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3 years ago

1. No, the count for this limit is only referring to shared folders, not unshared parent folders.

 

2. The Dropbox API doesn't offer a way to just retrieve the current count with the Python SDK, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though. You can use sharing_list_folders and sharing_list_folders_continue to list and count shared folders as needed however.

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Akansh Gautam
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Hi Greg-DB thanks for reply

And for the limit in team account is 1500 shared folder for a particular folder and 30K for whole team account?

 

 

thanks and regards

 

    • Akansh Gautam's avatar
      Akansh Gautam
      Explorer | Level 4
      3 years ago

      Hi Greg-DB 

       

      Thanks for response.

       

      I am working on team account and at root I have a folder named AppsTest (It has a shared_folder_id , using files_get_metadata api) so it it a shared folder?

       

      In it I have another folder named Cases (AppsTest/Cases), it doesn't have any shared folder id, i.e. it is not shared folder?

       

      1. So my first question is shared folder are only those which has shared_folder_id?

       

       

       

      2. As you can see in screenshot Cases (no shared_folder_id), Beta (has Shared_folder_id), 2023 (not shared_folder_id) next Discharge has (shared_folder_id)

       

      so for api limit of 1500 from where count is started?

      is it from AppsTest or where?

       

      Please reply asap

       

      Thanks and Regards

       

       

       

      • Greg-DB's avatar
        Greg-DB
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        3 years ago

        1. Yes, folders that are not shared folders would not have shared_folder_id set.

        2. The "Within a single folder, you can create up to 1,500 shared subfolders" limit applies to the number of shared folders underneath any folder.

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