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Daan L.'s avatar
Daan L.
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

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...
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Rick W.2's avatar
Rick W.2
New member | Level 2
10 years ago

I'm going to repeat an earlier post I made.  Although it does not fix he basic problem, it odes provide a work-around that makes it possible to share files from app folders.  I found App Mover (app.mover.io) and have used it for one application where I need to share files.  It allows syncing files between cloud storage folders, even across providers.  I sync from the app folder to another folder in Dropbox.  That folder is outside of the app folder restrictions. For my purposes, having the sync run daily works, but it can run more frequently.  

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