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fa11
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9 years ago
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Does changing dropbox app permission take effect instantly?

Hi,   My app has Full App access and I am making a call to 'sharing/ad d_file_member' using Dropbox core API. After deleting and creating my app with same name while experimenting with App Permi...
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    Greg-DB
    9 years ago

    Note that it's not possible to change the permission on an app. You can only delete an app and create a different one, as you described.

     

    Also, every access token is tied to one and only one app. In this case, it sounds like you retrieved an access token, and then deleted the app for that access token. At that point, API calls made using that access token will fail. You will need to get a new access token for the new app to make API calls again.

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Greg-DB
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9 years ago

Note that it's not possible to change the permission on an app. You can only delete an app and create a different one, as you described.

 

Also, every access token is tied to one and only one app. In this case, it sounds like you retrieved an access token, and then deleted the app for that access token. At that point, API calls made using that access token will fail. You will need to get a new access token for the new app to make API calls again.

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fa11
Explorer | Level 3
9 years ago

Thanks for your response! Yes I was doing that but i think there were two issues:

1. I deleted and created app again and again in 5 minutes, changed my account details which had created that app like my username. I think maybe it was all not synced maybe as when i googled it, I found that it could be either due to deleted app or deleted account. The problem went away when I tried after a few hours. 

2. I discovered that I had been using a hard coded expired token somewhere in my code so maybe that token was over-wiritng the valid token. My code was messed up so I cleaned it and that resovled my issue.

 

Best Regards,

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