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    <title>topic Re: Authentication to dropbox on tvOS in Dropbox API Support &amp; Feedback</title>
    <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135034#M4070</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;Not sure if I follow your suggestion you gave earlier - not used dropbox that much earlier (from a developer perspective).&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Entering credentials on the AppleTV will not be any problem, since it supports using the iPhone or iPad as an input device, AFAIK.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Since the tvOS&amp;nbsp;doesn't support any local storage larger than ~0.5MB/app, we have to use cloud services for storing/retrieving data that we don't want/can deliver with the app download. So in my opinion, it is very important that you support tvOS &lt;img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://www.dropboxforum.com/html/@FBF7D2AB59A0D6E861EBF6A36F93B7E2/emoticons/1f642.png" alt=":slightly_smiling_face:" title=":slightly_smiling_face:" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2015 10:39:15 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Lars M.4</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2015-09-22T10:39:15Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Authentication to dropbox on tvOS</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135027#M4063</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I want to authenticate to dropbox in tvOS. However, when dropbox opens the authentication dialog, there is not way for the user to fill it- the UI does not meet the tvOS requirements. So I want to open a tvOS dialog for username/password. But Is there a way then to take this data to authenticate manually, i.e. using code that will input the dropbox username and password?&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Thanks&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2019 09:40:04 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135027#M4063</guid>
      <dc:creator>Guy G.7</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-05-29T09:40:04Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Authentication to dropbox on tvOS</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135028#M4064</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Thanks for posting about this. Can you elaborate on what you mean when you say "the UI does not meet the tvOS requirements"? Can you link to any relevant documentation? Once we have a better understanding of the capabilities available, we'll be happy to investigate to see if/what solution we might be able to offer.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2015 01:36:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135028#M4064</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-09-15T01:36:14Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Authentication to dropbox on tvOS</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135029#M4065</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I'll try to explain the scenario.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I'm using the dropbox iOS sdk. When I'm trying to setup a&amp;nbsp;dropbox connection,&amp;nbsp;Dropbox SDK opens a UI element require the user for username and password. On iPhone it is working well, the user fill in the information and it establish the connection.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;In tvOS, the form with the username and password is presented on the screen (see attached)&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;But since it is tvOK, there is no way for the user to type the username or password. It should be a tvOS spacial screen - see also attached below a tvOS input screen&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;So I assume there are two options to solve it.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;1. Dropbox develop a tvOS login screen&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;2. Find a way to send the username and password programmatically so I will be able to develop the UI myself.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Thanks!&lt;IMG id="wysiwyg_image_44" src="https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/user_images/aAooj7lmVie1jMXlICWAbA.png" alt="&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;
&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;
&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img id=" wysiwyg_image_45="" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2015 06:51:06 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135029#M4065</guid>
      <dc:creator>Guy G.7</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-09-15T06:51:06Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Authentication to dropbox on tvOS</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135030#M4066</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I'm curious about this too.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;To sharpen the question a bit: it's not possible to use webviews on tvOS, so the OAuth flow shown above won't work. Does Dropbox have&amp;nbsp;any plans to ship a tvOS optimized login method?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2015 00:42:44 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135030#M4066</guid>
      <dc:creator>Phil K.7</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-09-16T00:42:44Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Authentication to dropbox on tvOS</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135031#M4067</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Thanks for all of the information and screenshots guys, that's very helpful.&amp;nbsp;I'll bring this up with the team internally.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;One thing that may work with the existing infrastructure&amp;nbsp;though would be how Apple TV apps of the current generation work for connecting external accounts. That is, the Apple TV app gives the user a short URL for&amp;nbsp;the app's web site to browse to on an&amp;nbsp;Internet connected device with a browser, and that web site processes a standard OAuth 2 app authorization flow. Upon redirected back to the app's web site, it can send down the necessary token to the TV app. That would&amp;nbsp;offer a better user experience, especially if the user is already signed in to&amp;nbsp;Dropbox on their phone, for example, as they'd only have to type in the short URL on their&amp;nbsp;device, as opposed to typing in their full Dropbox credentials on the Apple TV (possibly including a second factor, etc.).&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2015 03:58:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135031#M4067</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-09-16T03:58:55Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Authentication to dropbox on tvOS</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135032#M4068</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Has anyone got this working yet, or are the dropbox team still working on a proper solution?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2015 09:22:44 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135032#M4068</guid>
      <dc:creator>Lars M.4</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-09-22T09:22:44Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Authentication to dropbox on tvOS</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135033#M4069</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I don't have any updates on this, either internally or externally. We'd love to hear if anyone has experimented with the flow I mentioned in my last reply though, as we imagine that'd be a much better experience for the user than trying to enter all of their credentials on the TV.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2015 10:05:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135033#M4069</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-09-22T10:05:20Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Authentication to dropbox on tvOS</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135034#M4070</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Not sure if I follow your suggestion you gave earlier - not used dropbox that much earlier (from a developer perspective).&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Entering credentials on the AppleTV will not be any problem, since it supports using the iPhone or iPad as an input device, AFAIK.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Since the tvOS&amp;nbsp;doesn't support any local storage larger than ~0.5MB/app, we have to use cloud services for storing/retrieving data that we don't want/can deliver with the app download. So in my opinion, it is very important that you support tvOS &lt;img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://www.dropboxforum.com/html/@FBF7D2AB59A0D6E861EBF6A36F93B7E2/emoticons/1f642.png" alt=":slightly_smiling_face:" title=":slightly_smiling_face:" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2015 10:39:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135034#M4070</guid>
      <dc:creator>Lars M.4</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-09-22T10:39:15Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Authentication to dropbox on tvOS</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135035#M4071</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Thanks for the information! Do you have any documentation for the input method using an iOS device you can link to?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2015 10:47:28 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135035#M4071</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-09-22T10:47:28Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Authentication to dropbox on tvOS</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135036#M4072</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Regarding ATV4, consider it a qualified guess - even if I know I can't tell you &lt;img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://www.dropboxforum.com/html/@FBF7D2AB59A0D6E861EBF6A36F93B7E2/emoticons/1f642.png" alt=":slightly_smiling_face:" title=":slightly_smiling_face:" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;For ATV3, the iPhone/iPad can act&amp;nbsp;as a keyboard to it, so it should be the same for ATV4!? Dictating with Siri will only be supported in eight languages in the beginning, so for everyone else it's the iPhone/iPad-keyboard they have to use...&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2015 00:46:44 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135036#M4072</guid>
      <dc:creator>Lars M.4</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-09-23T00:46:44Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Authentication to dropbox on tvOS</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135037#M4073</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I would like to second(or third) the request for tvOS support.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;With the new Apple TV, cloud solutions will be very important and I know a lot of my users do not want to or can rely on iCloud.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2015 00:03:29 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135037#M4073</guid>
      <dc:creator>Tibor H.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-09-30T00:03:29Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Authentication to dropbox on tvOS</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135038#M4074</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Thanks for the feedback! At this point, we're recommending developers use the flow I described earlier, especially since this is already possible with the existing API.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;It's also the same as how connecting providers is already done on the existing Apple TV product:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG id="wysiwyg_image_37" src="https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/user_images/rxHsYVjTe_VSFwCzdMF6KQ.jpeg" alt="&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;
&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2015 01:13:06 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135038#M4074</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-09-30T01:13:06Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Authentication to dropbox on tvOS</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135039#M4075</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Is there documentation for this available? I cannot seem to find it.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2015 01:20:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135039#M4075</guid>
      <dc:creator>Tibor H.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-09-30T01:20:15Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Authentication to dropbox on tvOS</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135040#M4076</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;On the&amp;nbsp;Dropbox side, there's no special documentation since this would just utilize the normal OAuth flow, documented here:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs#oa2-authorize" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer"&gt;https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs#oa2-authorize&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/oauthguide" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer"&gt;https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/oauthguide&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I don't know if Apple offers any guidance or documentation on the Apple TV side of things of course though.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2015 01:21:46 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135040#M4076</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-09-30T01:21:46Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Authentication to dropbox on tvOS</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135041#M4077</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;So, that seems to work for now. However, I do get this warning from the linker:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;PRE&gt;ld: warning: URGENT: building for tvOS simulator, but linking in object file (.../DropboxSDK.framework/DropboxSDK) built for (unknown). Note: This will be an error in the future.&lt;/PRE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Any chance you can build a framework for tvOS?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2015 22:56:06 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135041#M4077</guid>
      <dc:creator>Tibor H.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-10-16T22:56:06Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Authentication to dropbox on tvOS</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135042#M4078</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;The code for the iOS SDK is part of the downloadable zip file. I assume you can just add the code directly and compile however you're compiling the rest of your app. Is that not true?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2015 23:19:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135042#M4078</guid>
      <dc:creator>Steve M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-10-16T23:19:58Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Authentication to dropbox on tvOS</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135043#M4079</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Doh, I was not aware that the Dropbox SDK source was available (didn't even check).&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Now, it seems that when I download a file via dropbox on tvOS, it tries to save it in a Dropbox temp folder. Just as a heads-up, I haven't dug into the source yet but it seems that Dropbox temp folder is in the documents folder. tvOS has no documents folder and the download to the Dropbox temp folder fails.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;So with the source available, I can probably fix that easily but you might want to look into it for other devs... &amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2015 23:51:49 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135043#M4079</guid>
      <dc:creator>Tibor H.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-10-16T23:51:49Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Authentication to dropbox on tvOS</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135044#M4080</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I'm not sure what you mean... could you share the code you're using to download the file? I&amp;nbsp;believe you can choose whatever local path you want?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2015 00:01:57 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135044#M4080</guid>
      <dc:creator>Steve M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-10-17T00:01:57Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Authentication to dropbox on tvOS</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135045#M4081</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Oh, I use this:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;PRE&gt;[self.restClient loadFile:path intoPath:local];&lt;/PRE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;With the local path being in the cache folder and available.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;But the error happens when DBRestClient (or what class is behind there) finished the download and tries to move it to the 'local' path ("data" in this example):&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;PRE&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;[ERROR] DBRequest#connectionDidFinishLoading: error moving temp file to desired location: “6B515164-57F8-4152-992E-486CA8FB0EFE-5029-000054C21A6EFDD9” couldn’t be moved to “data” because either the former doesn't exist, or the folder containing the latter doesn't exist.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/PRE&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2015 00:06:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135045#M4081</guid>
      <dc:creator>Tibor H.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-10-17T00:06:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Authentication to dropbox on tvOS</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Authentication-to-dropbox-on-tvOS/m-p/135046#M4082</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Never mind, my mistake.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Dropbox uses the tmp directory, NSTemporaryDirectory()&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I didn't. Thanks again. Works fine.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2015 00:18:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Tibor H.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-10-17T00:18:45Z</dc:date>
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