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11 years ago

See who Folders are Shared with?

We have a lot of sensitive information for various clients in our DropBox account. We would like to know who has shared access to our files. Can some type of option be provided so that will allow ...

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Steve M.

Dropbox Staff

11 years ago

If you call /metadata with the include_membership query parameter, you'll get a list of all the members of the shared folder.

/shared_folders will return a list of all shared folders and the membership of each.

Shared folder metadata just came out of beta: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/blog/119/shared-folder-metadata-now-in-production.

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