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jerry14
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

API - Getting owner information of a file that is not shared

Hi - I am trying to get owner information of a file that is not shared.  I tried the below -    FileMetadata fileMetadata = (FileMetadata) dbxTeamClient.asAdmin(adminId).files().getMetadata(fileId)...
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Greg-DB
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4 years ago

Files that aren't shared won't be explicitly listed as having an owner. Files that aren't shared are just implicitly considered to be owned by the user account that contains the files.

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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
4 years ago
Greg-DB wrote:

Files that aren't shared won't be explicitly listed as having sharing information or an owner. ...

Yes, but this doesn't mean that listing shared members of particular file (even non shared) should fail! In such a case the owner will be the only listed user (or should be at least). Am I wrong?

By the way I asked already jerry14, to provide some additional information, but spam filter seems caught my post (for whatever reason).

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