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maulikkansara
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7 years ago
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How to Manage Multiple Dropbox accounts on one PC

I am using Dropbox API to integrate Dropbox features in one of my developing windows application. Now the scenario is like, I have one business account and one private account configured in my compu...
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    Greg-DB
    7 years ago

    Are you referring to getting the Dropbox accounts that already configured in the official Dropbox desktop client application? You can find the paths to the local Dropbox folders programmatically as documented here: https://www.dropbox.com/help/desktop-web/locate-dropbox-folder#programmatically

    That only offers a few pieces of information about the local Dropbox folders. If you need more functionality than that, you'd need to use the Dropbox API, and have the user authorize your app via the OAuth app authorization flow. That results in an access token you can use to talk directly to the Dropbox API servers, not the local Dropbox desktop client application. You can have the user process the authorization flow multiple times to connect multiple accounts if desired though, in which case you'd have the app store multiple access tokens.

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Greg-DB
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7 years ago

Are you referring to getting the Dropbox accounts that already configured in the official Dropbox desktop client application? You can find the paths to the local Dropbox folders programmatically as documented here: https://www.dropbox.com/help/desktop-web/locate-dropbox-folder#programmatically

That only offers a few pieces of information about the local Dropbox folders. If you need more functionality than that, you'd need to use the Dropbox API, and have the user authorize your app via the OAuth app authorization flow. That results in an access token you can use to talk directly to the Dropbox API servers, not the local Dropbox desktop client application. You can have the user process the authorization flow multiple times to connect multiple accounts if desired though, in which case you'd have the app store multiple access tokens.

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