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Mgymnasts
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3 years ago

Shared Access to Folders within the App

I have my app set up and running as I want it to, but now I need to make sure that I can share access to individual folders with others within my app.  As I was reading up on this I read:  Full Dro...
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Greg-DB
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3 years ago

Mgymnasts I see Здравко already helpfully offered some guidance, but to add some more clarification, note that the access an app gets is to the particular account that authorizes the app. There are no files/folders associated with the app itself; everything exists in some account. When you as the app owner connect the app to your own account, it access the contents of your account. When some other user connects the app to their account, it accesses the contents of their account.

 

So, if your app has the "full Dropbox" access type, and some other user authorizes the app to connect to their account, the app can then access anything in that user's account, including any shared folders shared with that particular user.

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