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Move file from users home folder to admin home folder
Hello im using team space configuration and trying to use this EP - https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/move_v2 to move file from user's home folder to admin home folder and i get 409, tried to ad...
Maybe im missing something here..
Im using team admin account to move file from user's home folder to admin's account home folder. when im using get_current_account to get the root id i get different ids for admin and for the user.
for example sarshavs user have root id : 4572232609 and Tomer - team admin have root id - 4572219937 now what should i do to move file from sarshavs home folder to Tomer home folder?
Thanks
As I said already and if you haven't count home name namespace as root namespace, then sarshavs and Tomer participate in different teams. Anyways...
In all cases (as Greg agreed too) you can use copy by reference and remove the file from the source at the end. If we assume you can access sarshavs files with user id $sarshavsUID and access token $sarshavsToken, then following call would give you a file reference:
fref=`curl -X POST https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/copy_reference/get -H "Authorization: Bearer $sarshavsToken" -H "Dropbox-Api-Select-User: $sarshavsUID" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"path":"/Path/To/Existing/file.ext"}' | jq -r .copy_reference`Now $fref holds the received reference. Next if we assume $tomerUID is id of Tomer and $tomerToken is corresponding token, following would paste the copied before file in Tomer owned space:
curl -X POST https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/copy_reference/save -H "Authorization: Bearer $tomerToken" -H "Dropbox-Api-Select-User: $tomerUID" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d "{\"copy_reference\":\"$fref\",\"path\":\"/Path/To/Paste/file.ext\"}"The above are HTTP shell calls. Of course, you can use whatever you're using till now following the same pattern. In such a way you're not limited to any folder or account. 😉
Hope this helps.
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