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Olaf B.2
New member | Level 2
9 years ago

Python: copy files between folders with different owners

Dear API support,   Is it possible to copy files between folders with different owners?  I need to adapt a functioning application for copying files under the same ownership.   Thank you for the ...
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ArgusR's avatar
ArgusR
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago

Thank you for your quick reply Greg.

I'm trying to understand the implementation, sorry but I'm new to this.

I only have the developer App inside dropbox, nothing else anywere. I created this app to get the token and use the python script dropbox-uploader (https://github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader), so I don't have any web or mobile app. 

I want to link two accounts to share some files without having to download and upload again.

There is a easy way to create this link request?

Thanks

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Greg-DB
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8 years ago

It looks like the third party library you linked to doesn't implement copy references unfortunately, so you won't be able to use that for this without modifications.

You'll need to implement code for linking both users to the app (see the OAuth guide linked earlier) and then the code for getting the copy reference from one account and saving it on the other account (see the documentation for the methods for the Python SDK linked earlier).

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