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Obaid ur Rehman
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9 months ago
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New Folder is created inside another directory, not root

We have the following folder structure in Dropbox: My Dropbox/Company/New (2025)/1 - Clients My Dropbox/New (2025)/1 - Clients The following code is creating the new folder in 'Company/New (2025)/...
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    DB-Des
    9 months ago

    Hi Obaid ur Rehman,

    When working with Dropbox teams, by default, API calls to the Dropbox API operate in the "member folder" of the connected account, not the "team space".

    You can configure API calls to operate in the "team space" instead though, in order to interact with files/folders in the team space. To do so, you'll need to set the "Dropbox-API-Path-Root" header. You can find information on how to use this in the Team Files Guide.

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DB-Des
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9 months ago

Hi Obaid ur Rehman,

When working with Dropbox teams, by default, API calls to the Dropbox API operate in the "member folder" of the connected account, not the "team space".

You can configure API calls to operate in the "team space" instead though, in order to interact with files/folders in the team space. To do so, you'll need to set the "Dropbox-API-Path-Root" header. You can find information on how to use this in the Team Files Guide.

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