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AS13
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8 years ago

Access Token Generation in Production Environment

The Auto-Generate Access Token Tip & Trick works fine in Sandbox Environment . The doubt is can this approach also be used in Production Environment for one's own account - ( say business e-mail acco...
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Greg-DB
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8 years ago

You can use a generated access token in whatever environment you wish; Dropbox doesn't distinguish between your sandbox/production environments when receiving  the API calls.

There isn't any functional difference between generated access tokens and access tokens from the OAuth flow for the same account anyway. 

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