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jasonblum
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9 years ago

Why do Digital Photo Frames requires FULL READ AND WRITE access to your entire Dropbox folder?

Digital Picture Frames like https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MTWDG6W/ and https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B012FRC3PA/ can automatically pull photos from your Dropbox folder.   ...but they req...
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Greg-DB
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6 years ago

David B.275 Thanks for the feedback!

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Greg-DB
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6 years ago

I just wanted to follow up on this to let you know that we've released "scopes" functionality on the Dropbox API, which you can use to configure an app or access token to only a limited set of functionality, such as the ability to read but not write files.

 

You can find more information about the release in our blog post here:

 

https://dropbox.tech/developers/now-available--scoped-apps-and-enhanced-permissions

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