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Daan L.
11 years agoNew member | Level 1
Sharing of folders inside the Apps/ folder
I have an application (madoko.net) where users rely on shared folders in dropbox to cooperate.
However, I now need to give the application access to a users' entire dropbox and I would like to mak...
Ben R.14
10 years agoNew member | Level 1
+1.
It's very disappointing that no attention seems to have been paid to this yet. There are a class of apps for which personal linkage is perfect. But there's another whole class of apps which want to use Dropbox for collaboration, and it's disappointing that this is only possible by granting the app access to the whole of Dropbox.
I'd be very happy if this became a third class of access - i.e. the existing 'appfolder' and 'full dropbox', could stay just as they are, and be joined by a new third class, "app specific folder" or "shareable app folder".
Assuming that the difficulty relates to the fact that any folder shared in Dropbox is shared at the top-level, my suggestion would be that in this new third option, the folder for the app would be created at the top-level, rather than inside the "Apps" folder. Perhaps it could have a prefix, e.g. if the app is called "MyApp", the folder could be "app_MyApp" or similar.
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