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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

I can't think of a reliable way to figure out the path today. Agreed that it's probably not a great idea to build an app that relies on this (since you're unlikely to be able to get it 100% correct today, and we may end up breaking things later).

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