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ilovethe80s
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4 years ago

token not renewing in rclone

I have never had an issue till just the other day and now my dropbox token expires every few hours and nothing I do seems to change that. Before I dont know that I did anything different. In rclone I...
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Greg-DB
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4 years ago

Dropbox is switching to issuing short-lived access tokens (and optional refresh tokens) instead of long-lived access tokens. Developers of existing third party apps received advanced noted of this change by email. More information can be found here.

 

Apps can still get long-term access by requesting "offline" access though, in which case the app receives a "refresh token" that can be used to retrieve new short-lived access tokens as needed, without further manual user intervention. This is something that will need to be implemented in the app itself though, by the developer. You may need to install an updated version of the third party app with that implemented, or contact the developer if they haven't released such an update yet.

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ilovethe80s
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

No one else is experiencing this. We even created a account and a new app and sure enough no. issue

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