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lades
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7 years ago
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File permissions in the shared folder

Hi, I have this case:  User A shares a folder to User B with edit rights and B didn't accept the shared folder yet.  In my application A opens the file from the shared folder, and provides the fi...
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    Greg-DB
    7 years ago

    Apologies for the confusion! This is the expected behavior. Before user B "accepts" or "mounts" the shared folder, they will have the right to access to (hence the returned "access_type"), but won't actually be able to do so, since the content hasn't yet been added to their account.

    You can detect this from the /2/sharing/get_file_metadata call for user B. In the response, if 'path_display' and 'path_lower' aren't set, that means that the file is not mounted in the user's account yet, so they can't interact with it. (They can mount it using the Dropbox web site, or via the API using /2/sharing/mount_folder.)

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Greg-DB
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6 years ago

lades I'll be happy to take a look, but I'll need some more information. Can you share the requests/responses for this? Please be sure to redact your access token though.

You mentioned "attached files" but I don't see anything attached.

Feel free to open an API ticket if you'd prefer to share privately. Thanks!

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lades
Explorer | Level 4
6 years ago

Greg-DB I found out what the problem was. When the header `Dropbox-API-Path-Root` is not specified, `get_file_metadata` is not returning the `path_lower` and `path_display` properties.

Dropbox-API-Path-Root: {".tag":"root","root":"63xxxxxx0"}

It all works fine (even the upload) if the `Dropbox-API-Path-Root` is defined. 

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