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Jiho P.'s avatar
Jiho P.
Explorer | Level 3
9 years ago

Dropbox Account Id vs UID

Hello, I'm using Swifty dropbox and wanted to know the difference between accountId I get from getAccountId() call vs. the userId set in my shared client. Thanks in advance!
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Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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9 years ago

They're both globally unique, but the longer one from getAccountId is preferred in general, and is required when interacting with the API v2 calls themselves, e.g., when specifying a user.

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