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    <title>topic Re: Sharing - how to share a folder with edit access when don't know my friend's dropbox user id? in Dropbox API Support &amp; Feedback</title>
    <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/411370#M22249</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;Sure, this would look like this:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;the app calls&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-get_folder_metadata" target="_self"&gt;/2/sharing/get_folder_metadata&lt;/A&gt; and gets the 'preview_url' for the shared folder from user #1's account (here's an actual sample from a test account:&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/dh2dl2yrb4xk52n/AAAzPALQwplEJLHvONWVy1XTa?dl=0" target="_self"&gt;https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/dh2dl2yrb4xk52n/AAAzPALQwplEJLHvONWVy1XTa?dl=0&lt;/A&gt; )&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;the app sends that URL to user #2&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;user #2 accesses that URL in their browser&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;user #2 signs in or signs up for&amp;nbsp;Dropbox, if not already signed in&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Screenshot 2020-04-17 16.11.16.png" style="width: 946px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/14999iD20EFA191158FA3E/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="Screenshot 2020-04-17 16.11.16.png" alt="Screenshot 2020-04-17 16.11.16.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Screenshot 2020-04-17 16.11.22.png" style="width: 999px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/15000i9923BFDC717253FC/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="Screenshot 2020-04-17 16.11.22.png" alt="Screenshot 2020-04-17 16.11.22.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;user #2 uses the "Request access" functionality on that page to request access to the shared folder&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Screenshot 2020-04-17 16.17.14.png" style="width: 999px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/15001iD0FF9CF16942CFF8/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="Screenshot 2020-04-17 16.17.14.png" alt="Screenshot 2020-04-17 16.17.14.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;user #1 is notified and can then choose to add user #2 to the shared folder&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Screenshot 2020-04-17 16.17.28.png" style="width: 442px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/15002i42413B4842216310/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="Screenshot 2020-04-17 16.17.28.png" alt="Screenshot 2020-04-17 16.17.28.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
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    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2020 20:22:02 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2020-04-17T20:22:02Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Sharing - how to share a folder with edit access when don't know my friend's dropbox user id?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/408485#M22146</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I have an App built on the Dropbox API (&lt;A href="https://songdocs.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;https://songdocs.io&lt;/A&gt;).&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I want to send a link to a folder to a friend, and I know I can get a shared link (which gives anyone with it view permissions) and send that to them.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I would like to give them editable accessto the folder but a) I don't know how I would figure out their dropbox user id. Is there a way to get that? (assuming I've never shared anything with them before fwiw). I don't see anything about Contacts in the API.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Maybe there's another way to accomplish this though too? Totally open to suggestions here. But if user #2 has the shared view link and they gain access to it in my app is there a way for user #2 to request access to mount the folder with edit permissions somehow from my app and for me to communicate that to user #1?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2020 17:50:02 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/408485#M22146</guid>
      <dc:creator>elsigh</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-04-09T17:50:02Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Sharing - how to share a folder with edit access when don't know my friend's dropbox user id?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/408520#M22148</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;If you don't already have a connection to the other user in Dropbox, there isn't a way to retrieve it. Instead, you can share it with them via their email address.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;To give them access to mount and edit the folder, you would first &lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-share_folder" target="_self"&gt;share the folder&lt;/A&gt;, then &lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-add_folder_member" target="_self"&gt;add them to the folder&lt;/A&gt;. In that second step, you can specify the recipient either by&amp;nbsp;Dropbox ID or email address.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2020 18:57:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/408520#M22148</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-04-09T18:57:50Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Sharing - how to share a folder with edit access when don't know my friend's dropbox user id?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/408521#M22149</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;What if I do already have a connection to the other user in dropbox (we've previously shared some things)? How would I go about getting their dropbox id? Is there a way (short of just walking through every file and every share bit on it) that I can access my contacts in dropbox?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Also what if I send it to user #2's email but it's not precisely the dropbox account email that user #2 uses?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2020 19:02:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/408521#M22149</guid>
      <dc:creator>elsigh</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-04-09T19:02:11Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Sharing - how to share a folder with edit access when don't know my friend's dropbox user id?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/408522#M22150</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;The&amp;nbsp;Dropbox API doesn't offer a way to list all known contacts, so you'd need to find the account by &lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-list_folder_members" target="_self"&gt;listing the members of the relevant existing shared folder(s)&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The recipient can still accept the invitation if they happen to use a different email address on their&amp;nbsp;Dropbox account.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2020 19:07:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/408522#M22150</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-04-09T19:07:23Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Sharing - how to share a folder with edit access when don't know my friend's dropbox user id?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/408563#M22154</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;My application wouldn't know existing folders my user has shared with their friends, but could walk their dropbox and amass a contacts list (yucky though).&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Looking at&amp;nbsp;SharingAddFolderMemberError it does appear that if I tried to share with an incorrect email it might not work though.. if I shared a SharedLink would there be any way for the receiving user to request access to mount it / gain edit privileges using the API?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I think it's more intuitive that I should send my friend a shared link and then either they do or don't have a dropbox account and then could gain edit access if they did (it would match my goals and I think help incentivize a user to login with their Dropbox account to be able to contribute vs just view/participate/lurk).&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2020 21:47:52 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/408563#M22154</guid>
      <dc:creator>elsigh</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-04-09T21:47:52Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Sharing - how to share a folder with edit access when don't know my friend's dropbox user id?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/408790#M22164</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;By "it does appear that if I tried to share with an incorrect email it might not work", are you referring to the 'email_unverified' or 'invalid_email' errors, perhaps? Those actually just refer to the connected user's account (i.e., for the access token you're using) not being verified, or the email address value for the recipient not being in the expected email address format, respectively. Those are not referring to the state, or lack thereof, of the recipient's&amp;nbsp;Dropbox account.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Anyway, there isn't a way for a recipient of a shared link for a folder to both view and optionally then directly get access to mount and edit the folder in their&amp;nbsp;Dropbox account using just the one shared link unfortunately. These are different types of&amp;nbsp;Dropbox sharing that don't directly connect to each other.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;You can accomplish this using multiple links though. You can &lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-create_shared_link_with_settings" target="_self"&gt;create shared links&lt;/A&gt; to send to the other users so they can view/download the content, and also &lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-get_folder_metadata" target="_self"&gt;get the "preview_url" of the shared folder&lt;/A&gt; which other users can use to request access to the shared folder for mounting and editing.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2020 15:03:04 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/408790#M22164</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-04-10T15:03:04Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Sharing - how to share a folder with edit access when don't know my friend's dropbox user id?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/409034#M22178</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Ah, that last part sounds exactly like what I want to explore, thanks Greg!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;So I've created a shareLink for my folder and requested the `short_url`.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;`folder.url` is&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/is3b7lj3go9g9ul/AACKo9xo_qf0rn0kh4TIZSgza?dl=0" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.dropbox.com/sh/is3b7lj3go9g9ul/AACKo9xo_qf0rn0kh4TIZSgza?dl=0&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;`short_url` is &lt;A href="https://db.tt/eMUUFEZY8d" target="_blank"&gt;https://db.tt/eMUUFEZY8d&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;When I try to use that `short_url` in a call to `get_shared_link_metadata` I get `&lt;SPAN class="name"&gt;error&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN class="object-value-object value"&gt;{.tag: "shared_link_not_found"}` but when I use the resolved URL (aka `folder.url`) it works. Is that to be expected?&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2020 10:43:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/409034#M22178</guid>
      <dc:creator>elsigh</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-04-11T10:43:11Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Sharing - how to share a folder with edit access when don't know my friend's dropbox user id?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/409493#M22186</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Yes, that endpoint expects the full shared link, not the short version.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;By the way, it sounds like you're using &lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-create_shared_link" target="_self"&gt;the /2/sharing/create_shared_link endpoint&lt;/A&gt; to get that short URL.&amp;nbsp;That endpoint is deprecated, so you should use &lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-create_shared_link_with_settings" target="_self"&gt;the&amp;nbsp;/2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings replacement&lt;/A&gt; instead. That doesn't offer the ability to get short URLs though.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2020 15:00:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/409493#M22186</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-04-13T15:00:58Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Sharing - how to share a folder with edit access when don't know my friend's dropbox user id?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/411335#M22248</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hey &lt;a href="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/10"&gt;@Greg-DB&lt;/a&gt; - thank you for going through this with me.. you mentioned: "&lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-get_folder_metadata" target="_self" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;get the "preview_url" of the shared folder&lt;/A&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;which other users can use to request access to the shared folder for mounting and editing." above.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Can you describe how this flow might work in terms of the API?&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;e.g. User #1 sends a text with a sharedLink to User #2.. how can User #2 request access in my app? I wonder if maybe you meant they could request access in Dropbox?&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2020 19:15:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/411335#M22248</guid>
      <dc:creator>elsigh</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-04-17T19:15:47Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Sharing - how to share a folder with edit access when don't know my friend's dropbox user id?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/411370#M22249</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Sure, this would look like this:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;the app calls&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-get_folder_metadata" target="_self"&gt;/2/sharing/get_folder_metadata&lt;/A&gt; and gets the 'preview_url' for the shared folder from user #1's account (here's an actual sample from a test account:&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/dh2dl2yrb4xk52n/AAAzPALQwplEJLHvONWVy1XTa?dl=0" target="_self"&gt;https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/dh2dl2yrb4xk52n/AAAzPALQwplEJLHvONWVy1XTa?dl=0&lt;/A&gt; )&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;the app sends that URL to user #2&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;user #2 accesses that URL in their browser&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;user #2 signs in or signs up for&amp;nbsp;Dropbox, if not already signed in&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Screenshot 2020-04-17 16.11.16.png" style="width: 946px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/14999iD20EFA191158FA3E/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="Screenshot 2020-04-17 16.11.16.png" alt="Screenshot 2020-04-17 16.11.16.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Screenshot 2020-04-17 16.11.22.png" style="width: 999px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/15000i9923BFDC717253FC/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="Screenshot 2020-04-17 16.11.22.png" alt="Screenshot 2020-04-17 16.11.22.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;user #2 uses the "Request access" functionality on that page to request access to the shared folder&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Screenshot 2020-04-17 16.17.14.png" style="width: 999px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/15001iD0FF9CF16942CFF8/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="Screenshot 2020-04-17 16.17.14.png" alt="Screenshot 2020-04-17 16.17.14.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;user #1 is notified and can then choose to add user #2 to the shared folder&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Screenshot 2020-04-17 16.17.28.png" style="width: 442px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/15002i42413B4842216310/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="Screenshot 2020-04-17 16.17.28.png" alt="Screenshot 2020-04-17 16.17.28.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2020 20:22:02 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/411370#M22249</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-04-17T20:22:02Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Sharing - how to share a folder with edit access when don't know my friend's dropbox user id?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/411386#M22250</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;So those interactions need to happen in Dropbox and can't be done via API right?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Also, at the end of it all, how will I as a developer on behalf of user #2, know that User #1 has granted access? I guess once I know that I can 1) mount the folder if needed and then 2) get it's real id to store in my app and fetch contents from there. (not sure how exactly I'll get that when all I have in the app is the preview_url, e.g. my app won't know about anything happening behind the scenes in dropbox I don't believe.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2020 20:52:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/411386#M22250</guid>
      <dc:creator>elsigh</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-04-17T20:52:43Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Sharing - how to share a folder with edit access when don't know my friend's dropbox user id?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/411390#M22251</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;That's correct, this flow is part of the&amp;nbsp;Dropbox web site, not the API.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;From the app's perspective, it can also store the shared folder ID when retrieving the preview_url.&amp;nbsp;The shared folder ID is unique for shared folders across Dropbox, and consistent across accounts. So, you would see the same shared folder ID for API calls for any member of the folder.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The app can also check on the current members of the shared folder at any point in time via&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-list_folder_members" target="_self"&gt;/2/sharing/list_folder_members&lt;/A&gt;[&lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-list_folder_members-continue" target="_self"&gt;/continue&lt;/A&gt;], e.g., from user #1's account in this case.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The app can also check for any shared folders that the user has been given access to via&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-list_mountable_folders" target="_self"&gt;/2/sharing/list_mountable_folders&lt;/A&gt;[&lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-list_mountable_folders-continue" target="_self"&gt;/continue&lt;/A&gt;], e.g., from user #2's account in this case.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2020 21:00:04 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/411390#M22251</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-04-17T21:00:04Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Sharing - how to share a folder with edit access when don't know my friend's dropbox user id?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/411878#M22255</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;So I'm taking a stab at this.. My User #2 who has a shared link sends a request to &lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;FONT face="courier new,courier"&gt;sharingGetSharedLinkMetadata&lt;/FONT&gt; and gets back a folder object but the &lt;FONT face="courier new,courier"&gt;id&lt;/FONT&gt; in that response doesn't work as the &lt;FONT face="courier new,courier"&gt;shared_folder_id&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;arg to &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;FONT face="courier new,courier"&gt;sharingGetFolderMetadata&lt;/FONT&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;When I get a files within that folder though each file object includes a &lt;FONT face="courier new,courier"&gt;parent_shared_folder_id&lt;/FONT&gt; that looks like the correct format for &lt;FONT face="courier new,courier"&gt;sharingGetFolderMetadata&lt;/FONT&gt;. Seems like I'm doing something wrong and I should be able to get the &lt;FONT face="courier new,courier"&gt;shared_folder_id&lt;/FONT&gt; somehow with 1 API call and the shared link &lt;FONT face="courier new,courier"&gt;url&lt;/FONT&gt;. I'm probably missing something obvious.. Thoughts?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2020 04:26:18 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/411878#M22255</guid>
      <dc:creator>elsigh</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-04-20T04:26:18Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Sharing - how to share a folder with edit access when don't know my friend's dropbox user id?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/412180#M22269</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;The 'id' for a file or folder, such as returned by&amp;nbsp;sharingGetSharedLinkMetadata, is not the same thing as a 'shared_folder_id', and the two are not interchangeable.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;In the flow we discussed, you would get the shared folder ID from user 1's side, anywhere you can get the metadata for the folder, such as from filesGetMetadata. You can then use that to get the 'preview_url' from sharingGetFolderMetadata as user 1. User 2 doesn't need the shared_folder_id in that flow. User 2 just receives&amp;nbsp;the shared link, for viewing the file/folder, or the preview_url, for requesting access to the folder.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2020 17:35:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/412180#M22269</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-04-20T17:35:07Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Sharing - how to share a folder with edit access when don't know my friend's dropbox user id?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/412309#M22284</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Yeah, I think when I've talked to the designer about a flow that makes sense we settled on:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;User #1 shares a sharedLink with User #2, which gives User #2 read-access in our App to all the content in the folder. This way we at least can deliver value to user #2 as context. Otherwise someone is just going to out of the blue get a dropbox email that doesn't appear to be related to our application.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Once User #2 wants to "upgrade" to contribute or make edits they would then ask for permission and we'd bounce them out to the preview_url. Once User #1 grants User #2 permission, I'm hoping be able to make some change (if needed) so that User #2 can now write back new files to the folder or edit files in that folder.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;It's odd to me that as a developer I can peek into any of the files inside of the sharedLink folder contents to obtain the parent_shared_folder_id that I'll need to use to get at the preview url. So I kind of wondered if I was doing something wrong or missing an API endpoint that might have it. I suppose this means that a sharedLink to a folder without files in it would be busted (not the end of the world).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Let me paint a picture of the App in case it gives you any other ideas..&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I'm a songwriter. I write chords and lyrics in my app which saves a text file to a folder inside of an App Folder.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;You and I are going camping and we both play guitar and you write songs too.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I want to share a folder of all my songs with you so we can play them together. So I send you a magic link to my app that gives you the sharedLink and then when you open my app you see my songs which makes you excited to participate.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Now if you want to add yours too (which I hope, but don't presume that you'll necessarily want to), so you sign in to dropbox, and then ask me for edit permission to the shared folder (via the preview_url). Once I grant you access I hope that you can just refresh the App and then you can add your songs to the folder.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;That's at least the flow we're trying to build. Not sure if you can think of a better pattern.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2020 23:42:30 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/412309#M22284</guid>
      <dc:creator>elsigh</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-04-20T23:42:30Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Sharing - how to share a folder with edit access when don't know my friend's dropbox user id?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/412580#M22298</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I see, thanks for the additional context. I can't think of a better system for this use case unfortunately.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2020 17:47:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/412580#M22298</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-04-21T17:47:20Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Sharing - how to share a folder with edit access when don't know my friend's dropbox user id?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/414286#M22343</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hey&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/10"&gt;@Greg-DB&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;So I'm trying to get the `shared_folder_id` as user #1 but I'm not successful.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Heres' what I see in Dropbox for the folder. I'm the owner:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="myfolder.png" style="width: 999px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/15243i2328C587504EC591/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="myfolder.png" alt="myfolder.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I call `/files/get_metadat` but I don't see anything to use as a `shared_folder_id`:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="get_metadata.png" style="width: 999px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/15244iE604C6F4C64B7417/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="get_metadata.png" alt="get_metadata.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="response.png" style="width: 999px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/15245i7291FE9FB098AF15/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="response.png" alt="response.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The folder is link-shared:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="link-share.png" style="width: 999px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/15246i04CA2572398F6BDB/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="link-share.png" alt="link-share.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;So it seems I don't have what I need to programmatically add someone by email address. Ideas?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2020 21:00:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/414286#M22343</guid>
      <dc:creator>elsigh</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-04-26T21:00:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Sharing - how to share a folder with edit access when don't know my friend's dropbox user id?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/414287#M22344</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Ah, I'm just now seeing the "This folder can only be shared as a link" banner, which must be relevant.. I wonder if it's because this is a folder at the root level of my App Folder? aka it's /Apps/Songbook.Studio/Commoner .. maybe I'm heading into the rabbit hole.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2020 21:12:09 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/414287#M22344</guid>
      <dc:creator>elsigh</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-04-26T21:12:09Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Sharing - how to share a folder with edit access when don't know my friend's dropbox user id?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/414291#M22345</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I tried to share the folder in the Dropbox MacOS client but get this:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="share-in-db.png" style="width: 999px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/15247i7ABC7F00996B8724/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="share-in-db.png" alt="share-in-db.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Starting to wonder if the "App Folder" permission is at the root of what's dogging me. I don't recall being so hamstrung until we made the decision to change that in the interest of user privacy.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2020 21:15:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/414291#M22345</guid>
      <dc:creator>elsigh</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-04-26T21:15:31Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Sharing - how to share a folder with edit access when don't know my friend's dropbox user id?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/414293#M22346</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I tried creating another folder in the Dropbox web client and choosing "Share with specific people" and got this, which is stuck:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="test-hanging.png" style="width: 999px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/15248i3D8D211315D12FAC/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="test-hanging.png" alt="test-hanging.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2020 21:17:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sharing-how-to-share-a-folder-with-edit-access-when-don-t-know/m-p/414293#M22346</guid>
      <dc:creator>elsigh</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-04-26T21:17:50Z</dc:date>
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