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saritafurtado
Explorer | Level 3
8 years ago

insufficient_permissions error in paper doc api

Hi,

 

I am retreiving a list of docs using docs/list api. Then Im using the doc id to download and get folder info with docs/download and docs/get_folder_info apis respectively. All the doc ids from the list gives me result for download and folder info except one. Any doc api I call with this doc id gives me below error.

{
  "error_summary": "insufficient_permissions/...",
  "error": { ".tag": "insufficient_permissions" } }

 

I am using user endpoint to run these apis.

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  • Shanness's avatar
    Shanness
    New member | Level 2
    6 years ago

    I'm having the same problem too.  Is there an update for this?

  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    6 years ago

    Shanness I still don't have an official update on this unfortunately. (For reference, it looks like this can occur due to some implementation details on the backend of how account migrations work with respect to Paper docs. That is, during the migration some extraneous doc IDs may be left over, but these don't actually refer to any distinct documents that the user doesn't already have access to via other doc IDs. So, it should be safe to ignore the failing doc IDs.)

     

    The Paper API endpoints are deprecated though, so the team may not be able to prioritize fixing this, since these will be retired anyway. Please refer to the Paper Migration Guide for more information.

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