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Sharing folders to users with viewer still permits downloads
I am working on an integration for our business that uses the API to shared a folder's content with an email attached to the order. Previously we used Google Drive to solve this but have experienced ...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffDirect folder sharing, such as via /2/sharing/add_folder_member, doesn't support disabling downloads.
To disable downloads, you could use shared links instead, which is available via /2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings on the API (click on 'SharedLinkSettings' to expand the documentation to see the settings fields). However that doesn't handle distribution/access control to specific email addresses, so you'd need to handle that on your side if you use that instead.
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