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Gavin O.2
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11 years ago

Link to files/folder - not sharing

Hello again team, I'm attempting to write an app that will send people links to items within their Dropbox files and folders. This app makes use of the delta/metadata endpoints to discover files ...
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Steve M.
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11 years ago

Unfortunately, we don't have a way to hotlink to a file on dropbox.com, but we'll consider this as a feature request.

Things to watch out for if you try to just do "/home/..." is that Dropbox for Business users may have different paths, depending on whether they've linked a work and personal account (and then the path depends on which account is being used).

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