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Cinelist
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago

Restricting API Token to a given root folder

Hi everyone   I'm new to the Dropbox Developer community 🙂   Is it possible to limit an app token (generated with the OAuth2 flow) to a given folder in the corresponding Dropbox?   It se...
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Cinelist's avatar
Cinelist
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago

Thank you very much for your reply!

 

To limit access to a single folder you can use registered application with application' folder. Such a folder will be created automatically in the App folder and your application will be able access resources only residing there (as opposite to full access) if that's what you want.

Yes this is exactly what I want! How should I do that? On the Dropbox app's dashboard?

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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
4 years ago

On an existing application you cannot change this! When you created your application you have set some type of application permissions. If this type is "App folder", you don't need to do anything more - you got it already. If you have something else selected, you need to create new application and select proper type there. 😉 That's it.

Hope this helps.

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