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Upload content to shared file
We currently use Dropbox's Python SDK to overwrite existing file contents with the method .files_upload(). With give it the file id as a parameter along with the file content and it works:
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Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThe location within the account doesn't really matter, but which account it is in does matter. From your description, it sounds like the file is not in the connected account (that is, the account for the access token you're using), but rather is in another account (and the file just happens to be shared individually to the connected account).
Since the file is not actually in the connected account, the connected account does not have the ability to write to it, resulting in this 'no_write_permission' error.
You are right. The file belongs to another account, which have shared the file with the connected account. The thing is that, the connected account does write to the file if it is in a shared folder as you said. In my case, only the file is shared with the connected account, while the file's parent folder is not, so it doesn't work. Another issue is that if the file resides in the root folder of the owner, it doesn't belong to a sharable folder. So in order for the users of our App send data between shared files, they must be in a shared folder as well.
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