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randohuman
6 months agoNew member | Level 2
app without permission for contact into
We want our app to just have read/write permission to the app folder for backing up some important data for our app users. We don't care to know personal information like username, email and location of the user but it seems like we cannot unselect the account_info.read permission forcing us to have access to personal information. Am I missing something?
Thank you for reporting this issue to us. The engineering team understands the problem and is working on getting a fix deployed. An automatic update that resolves the issues will be installed soon.
So far, we've only seen the problem affecting Windows users on Windows versions 8.1 and earlier who installed Dropbox without administrator privileges. In the meantime, here are 2 different workarounds which will silence the error message from appearing- Option (1) Delete the problematic
DropboxCleanup.exe
file. This application is not needed for Dropbox on these versions of Windows and deleting it will not cause problems.- Open file explorer, and enter
%LocalAppData%\Dropbox\Update\1.3.733.1\
in the address bar. - Click on the
DropboxCleanup.exe
and delete it - Demo here
- Open file explorer, and enter
- Option (2) Reinstall Dropbox with administrator privileges
- Process is described in this document. With administrator privileges enabled, the error should stop appearing.
- Option (1) Delete the problematic
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- randohumanNew member | Level 2
Solved. While the dashboard does force the account_info.read permission, I was able to use the the scope parameter of the oauth2 authorization code flow to request the subset of permissions that we really need
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Thanks for following up. I'm glad to hear you already sorted this out. Yes, that's correct, while the account_info.read scope is the default/required scope for user-linked app registrations, it is not technically required for authorizations. As you found, you do not need to request it when having users connect to your app; you can request a subset of scopes without it.
For anyone else looking to do the same, refer to the documentation for the "scope" parameter on the /oauth2/authorize page.
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