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Python: copy files between folders with different owners
Dear API support,
Is it possible to copy files between folders with different owners? I need to adapt a functioning application for copying files under the same ownership.
Thank you for the help.
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
If you mean you want to copy files between shared folders in a particular account where the shared folders have different owners, yes, you can copy them normally, as long as the account you're using has write permissions in the destination folder:
If instead you want to copy files across different accounts entirely, when you have both accounts linked to the app, you can use "copy references" to do so:
https://dropbox-sdk-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/moduledoc.html#dropbox.dropbox.Dropbox.files_copy_reference_get
https://dropbox-sdk-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/moduledoc.html#dropbox.dropbox.Dropbox.files_copy_reference_saveHello,
How can I link another account to my existing app?
And after that, how do I tell files_copy_reference_save that the path to save is for the other account?
Thanks,
- Greg-DB
ArgusR You should implement the OAuth app authorization flow in your app to allow arbitrary users to connect to it. You can find information on how this works in the OAuth guide:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/oauth-guide
There are OAuth 2 flow helpers in the Python SDK:
https://dropbox-sdk-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/moduledoc.html#dropbox.oauth.DropboxOAuth2Flow
When using files_copy_reference_save in the Python SDK, you specify the path where you want to save the file or folder in the 'path' parameter:
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