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RobinHarveyIW
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5 years ago

Folder-scoped API access tokens?

Our company uses Dropbox for all document storage, teams work together on documents in large folder structures.  My team of developers is wanting to use an external service to sync these documents fr...
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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

No, unfortunately Dropbox does not offer the ability to grant an app/access token access to specific existing folder(s) only, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though. 

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