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gilbertwulff
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9 years ago

Uploading to a shared folder through api

I'm working on integrating dropbox to my company's website and we want to add a feature in to allow the users to share their shared folders to us and using the dropbox api, we upload files to the sha...
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Greg-DB
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9 years ago
I see, thanks for the screenshot! No, you can't upload to a folder just with the link.

That shared link is a different kind of sharing, and only provides read-access. You'd need to actually be invited to the shared folder (or the shared parent folder, in the case of the screenshot) to be able to write to it.
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gilbertwulff
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9 years ago

Gotcha! Thanks Greg for answering my question!

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