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    <title>topic How to Data Transfer Between Accounts in Bulk in Dropbox API Support &amp; Feedback</title>
    <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/How-to-Data-Transfer-Between-Accounts-in-Bulk/m-p/507644#M25081</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;I'm trying to transfer large amounts of data (files/folders) between accounts before an account is deleted. So say user A is to be deleted soon, I want to move user A's files to a format where user B can access them.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I'm looking at two approaches, but have questions in both?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;using copy_reference/get and copy_reference/save to manually transfer every file and folder&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;The issue is request batching. I don't want to make 1000s of calls if there are 1000s of files/folders I need to change the reference for.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Making a shared folder from which user B will have access to user A's files. Moving all of user A's files to the shared folder.&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;I'm not sure how to move files in bulk to a shared folder or how to maintain the right folder / file directory structure.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;Are there any approaches I might be missing? Any data migration apis? If not, what would be the best approach and how can I address some of these questions?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2021 22:40:05 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>kevinxu212</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2021-03-24T22:40:05Z</dc:date>
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      <title>How to Data Transfer Between Accounts in Bulk</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/How-to-Data-Transfer-Between-Accounts-in-Bulk/m-p/507644#M25081</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I'm trying to transfer large amounts of data (files/folders) between accounts before an account is deleted. So say user A is to be deleted soon, I want to move user A's files to a format where user B can access them.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I'm looking at two approaches, but have questions in both?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;using copy_reference/get and copy_reference/save to manually transfer every file and folder&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;The issue is request batching. I don't want to make 1000s of calls if there are 1000s of files/folders I need to change the reference for.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Making a shared folder from which user B will have access to user A's files. Moving all of user A's files to the shared folder.&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;I'm not sure how to move files in bulk to a shared folder or how to maintain the right folder / file directory structure.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;Are there any approaches I might be missing? Any data migration apis? If not, what would be the best approach and how can I address some of these questions?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2021 22:40:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/How-to-Data-Transfer-Between-Accounts-in-Bulk/m-p/507644#M25081</guid>
      <dc:creator>kevinxu212</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-03-24T22:40:05Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How to Data Transfer Between Accounts in Bulk</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/How-to-Data-Transfer-Between-Accounts-in-Bulk/m-p/507847#M25085</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;The&amp;nbsp;Dropbox API doesn't offer a way to process copy references in batch,&amp;nbsp;but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;That being the case, using shared folders may be a better option. For instance, you can share folders using&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-share_folder" target="_self"&gt;/2/sharing/share_folder&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;and &lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-add_folder_member" target="_self"&gt;/2/sharing/add_folder_member&lt;/A&gt;, or you can move entire folders and their contents, into a shared folder for instance, using&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-move" target="_self"&gt;/2/files/move_v2&lt;/A&gt;. You can also move items, files or folders, in bulk using&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-move_batch" target="_self"&gt;/2/files/move_batch_v2&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;If the account is a member of a Business team though, there is an option to transfer the member's files when deleting the account. You can find &lt;A href="https://help.dropbox.com/teams-admins/admin/transfer-team-member-files" target="_self"&gt;information on that in the help center here&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:47:28 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/How-to-Data-Transfer-Between-Accounts-in-Bulk/m-p/507847#M25085</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-03-25T15:47:28Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How to Data Transfer Between Accounts in Bulk</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/How-to-Data-Transfer-Between-Accounts-in-Bulk/m-p/507851#M25086</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;The last bit about "i&lt;SPAN&gt;f the account is a member of a Business team though" is most helpful. Thank you!&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:54:49 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/How-to-Data-Transfer-Between-Accounts-in-Bulk/m-p/507851#M25086</guid>
      <dc:creator>kevinxu212</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-03-25T15:54:49Z</dc:date>
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