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icecube9
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9 years ago

Get the user's email address from the Dropbox Windows desktop application

We're building an inventory tool that will read Dropbox information for a particular machine. Getting the Dropbox folder path is easy (get it from info.json), but the only thing I see in info.json pe...
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icecube9
New member | Level 2
9 years ago

Thanks for the prompt response Greg. Is there a "non-official" way to do this? For example, can we crack open the one of the SQLite DB files (they seem to be encrypted) and get this information out?

If not, is there someone we can reach out to at the business level? What we're developing is beneficial to Dropbox's business goals as well and we'd consider a partnership.

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Greg-DB
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9 years ago
I don't know if there are other ways to accomplish this, but I couldn't recommend or support them in any case, as they would be likely to break without warning and may be against our terms.

If you're interested in a partnership, you can contact our business development team here:

https://www.dropbox.com/contact_bizdev

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