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Office Integration wants access to ‘the files and folders in my Dropbox.’ All of them?
Hello, On my IPad, when I go to open a file from my Dropbox in Word, I get the following message: ‘Microsoft Integration would like access to the files and folders of your dropbox. Allow?’ T...
Hi Gatesallupinmyfolders, this access option basically means that, if you want to open and edit any Word, Excel or PowerPoint file, they can be located anywhere on your Dropbox account, and the integration will be able to access it.
With other apps, they can only view a private folder shared for that app alone. These are usually for settings, backups and so on. However, it isn't useful if it's an app to edit files, since they would need to be located in that private folder each time.
However, the access is only when you're directly using the Office app to edit files. It doesn't mean that other users or Microsoft themselves can access your files without your knowing.
Rich
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Super User II
Gatesallupinmyfolders wrote:
Thanks for the response, appreciate it. So essentially what you’re saying is that, yes, I’m giving Microsoft full access to all of my dropbox files and folders?
You're giving the Office app full access to your Dropbox.
That seems rather excessive when, as you say, I could just allow it access to one folder that I was comfortable allowing access to, for example, the folder containing the project I wish to work on. It seems highly flawed that Microsoft don’t allow you to set individual restrictions on ones own account.
Thank you, I appreciate your help.
Thank you, I appreciate your help.
- Rich
Gatesallupinmyfolders wrote:
That seems rather excessive when, as you say, I could just allow it access to one folder that I was comfortable allowing access to ...That's not how app-level access works. The Dropbox API allows for full access or app-level access. If an app uses app-level access it gets its own folder under Apps, and this is the ONLY folder that the app is allowed to access. Pretty useless for an app where you'll potentially be browsing your entire folder structure to open or save various files.
- Unless I only wanna use Word to work on files in one specific folder, which I do 🙂 But I of course take your point, thank you.
