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Sharing - how to share a folder with edit access when don't know my friend's dropbox user id?
I have an App built on the Dropbox API (https://songdocs.io).
I want to send a link to a folder to a friend, and I know I can get a shared link (which gives anyone with it view permissions) and send that to them.
I would like to give them editable accessto the folder but a) I don't know how I would figure out their dropbox user id. Is there a way to get that? (assuming I've never shared anything with them before fwiw). I don't see anything about Contacts in the API.
Maybe there's another way to accomplish this though too? Totally open to suggestions here. But if user #2 has the shared view link and they gain access to it in my app is there a way for user #2 to request access to mount the folder with edit permissions somehow from my app and for me to communicate that to user #1?
The 'sharing_info' is only set on a folder if the folder is itself shared as a shared folder (or is inside a shared folder). Note that this is different than the kind of sharing offered by /2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings. Calling /2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings for a folder will not make it a "shared folder"; it only creates a "shared link" for it.
To first share the folder as a shared folder, so that it will receive 'sharing_info' with a 'shared_folder_id' that you can then use with /2/sharing/add_folder_member, you should first call /2/sharing/share_folder.
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
If you don't already have a connection to the other user in Dropbox, there isn't a way to retrieve it. Instead, you can share it with them via their email address.
To give them access to mount and edit the folder, you would first share the folder, then add them to the folder. In that second step, you can specify the recipient either by Dropbox ID or email address.
What if I do already have a connection to the other user in dropbox (we've previously shared some things)? How would I go about getting their dropbox id? Is there a way (short of just walking through every file and every share bit on it) that I can access my contacts in dropbox?
Also what if I send it to user #2's email but it's not precisely the dropbox account email that user #2 uses?
- Greg-DB
The Dropbox API doesn't offer a way to list all known contacts, so you'd need to find the account by listing the members of the relevant existing shared folder(s).
The recipient can still accept the invitation if they happen to use a different email address on their Dropbox account.
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