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CognizerProduct
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6 years ago

Unable to get events for shared files

Hi, We have Paid/Business and Free Dropbox users using our application and we need the changes to the user's accounts related to sharing (receiveing a shared file, a shared file being unshared etc) ...
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Greg-DB
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6 years ago

I recommend reading the Detecting Changes Guide, as it goes over various options for monitoring changes in Dropbox. 

 

As in the other threads though, since "received" files aren't included in the user's own Dropbox filesystem, there isn't a good way to monitor those.

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