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James Z.3
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10 years ago

API v2 removed file type permissions

Out of curiosity, can anyone from Dropbox explain why API v2 removed file type permissions? In v1, an app can request to only access image files (more info here). This gives the user confidence that ...
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Greg-DB
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10 years ago

Thanks for the feedback! It's much appreciated, and feedback like this helps us decide how to prioritize our product direction. I can't speak much to why one feature or another was or wasn't implemented (in this case support for the file type permission on the new API v2), but I'm sending this along to the team as a request.

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