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journeymigration
4 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Retrieve thousands of files and folders without throttling
I'm trying to generate a nice big array for each user that contains all the files and folders the user owns as well as the users that each file/folder is shared with (e.g. users: ["John Doe": [{"name...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
4 years agoOther types of namespaces like that aren't specific to a single team member. Shared folders have multiple members (and the owner can change over time), for instance, and team folders are owned by the team.
And that's correct, /2/sharing/list_file_members/batch does work differently than /2/sharing/list_file_members. Refer to the documentation for more information.
journeymigration
4 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Thanks Greg,
Seems like the only way to get info on who the owner of each file is to call the https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/list_file_members endpoint then. Batching only tells me if members are different than the inherited parent folder, and https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/list_folder doesn't give me that information.
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