Dropbox root folder path variants home and work

[Takashi Homma]

I found Dropbox's web interface has two types of folders at the root level: 'home' and 'work'.

What is the difference between these?

Can I use any API to determine which folder is being used?

[Здравко]

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@Takashi Homma wrote:

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Can I use any API to determine which folder is being used?

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You (or your app user) can use any folder that the user has access to, so "which folder is being used" - not clear what you're asking for actually. If you want to know the types of folders (or namespaces) you can use /2/team/namespaces/list.

Good luck.

[Greg-DB]

@Takashi Homma It sounds like you're referring to the /home and /work routes on the Dropbox web site. The Dropbox API doesn't use those; for information on interacting with different files/folders on the Dropbox API, I recommend reading the File Access Guide and Team Files Guide.

[Takashi Homma]

Ah, yes I meant a root part of URL path. And I want to make a link to uploaded files.

https://www.dropbox.com/home/foo/bar.txt
https://www.dropbox.com/work/foo/bar.txt

I understand that it is recommended to create a shared link when making a link pointer to a file. However, I want to avoid this because creating shared links generates tons of noise in the activity log and external sharing log.

This is a difficult problem.

[Greg-DB · Accepted solution]

@Takashi Homma Thanks for the context. The Dropbox API doesn't offer a way of constructing those non-shared web site URLs, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.

[Takashi Homma]

Thank you!