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Can't Access Business Account Root Folders from Dropbox Client App
Hello,
Our company has a business advanced account, with members managed through Azure AD. At the root are two folders: one for my account, "Faulk", and another intended to house externally man...
Hi Faulk,
By default the point assumed to be root for API access is users home folder (i.e. your Faulk folder), not the account root. If you want to change this root to any other namespace (including to account root), you need to use Dropbox-API-Path-Root header. 😉
Hope this helps.
Hi Faulk,
By default the point assumed to be root for API access is users home folder (i.e. your Faulk folder), not the account root. If you want to change this root to any other namespace (including to account root), you need to use Dropbox-API-Path-Root header. 😉
Hope this helps.
You are 100% correct. Been beating my head against the wall for hours and it was that easy. For anyone coming across this, the corrective steps were:
- Call users/get_current_account and grab the "root_namespace_id" value from the account result.
- Add a Dropbox-API-Path-Root header with a value {".tag": "namespace_id", "namespace_id": "<that value>"} to the files/list_folder call.
From there you can adjust the path value as needed.
For those using the SDK, here's an example (.net):
using (DropboxClient client = new DropboxClient(<accessToken>).WithPathRoot(new Dropbox.Api.Common.PathRoot.NamespaceId(<root path id>)))
{}
Thanks so much for your help and quick reply!
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