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Hi all I'm building an app on the Dropbox API and need a definitive answer on how daily sharing bandwidth is attributed in one specific shared-folder scenario. I've laid the setup out below with labelled accounts to remove any ambiguity. Setup Account O ("owner"): an end user's Dropbox account that owns a folder of files.…
I have a test app for testing the Dropbox chooser. When I accesshttps://www.dropbox.com/chooser?app_key=gcwnony09i3xxxx&origin=xxxxxxxxx&link_type=preview&trigger=js&iframe=truethe console shows: Framing 'https://www.dropbox.com/' violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "frame-ancestors 'self'". The…
The IPv4 loopback address block is nearly seventeen million addresses automatically bound from 127.0.0.0 to 127.255.255.255, but the settings page in the App Console allows only the single address 127.0.0.1. It reports valid loopback addresses in that range as "non-local". This makes it impossible for apps to listen on…
Hey, I'm looking into building a Dropbox MCP integration with my product. Can I register an app / OAuth client, publish that, and use that for all of my customers? Or does every customer need to come into Dropbox to register an app, etc. In the instructions, it looks like you can register an OAuth client but then it talks…
Subject: Severe latency when loading Dropbox-hosted files on Forumactif forums Hello Dropbox Support, I am contacting you because several Forumactif forum administrators are currently experiencing severe latency when their forums load files hosted on Dropbox. The issue started around June 2, 2026, at approximately 8:00 PM…
Hi, We're building an integration that tracks file changes across a Dropbox Business team using the team_log/get_events API. When a user deletes a folder, we receive a single file_delete event with assets[0][".tag"] = "folder", no individual events are generated for the files that were inside that folder. Our problem: We…
Hi, I noticed that the Dropbox web UI calls an internal endpoint: https://www.dropbox.com/2/files/get_upload_info The response contains two fields: { "display_name": "tester", "uploaded": "2026-05-16T21:47:38Z" } I understand this is not part of the public API, but I'd like to understand what the uploaded field represents…
Hi Dropbox team,I’m using the official Dropbox MCP endpoint with Claude Cowork:https://mcp.dropbox.com/mcpThe OAuth connection works correctly. Claude can authenticate and the WhoAmI/account check succeeds.However, Dropbox file/folder operations fail with this error:API Error: 400{"type": "error","error": {"type":…
Hi, is there a way to get the comments (as appears on the right side panel of the web UI) for a file via the API? I have searched the methods list for logical names related to that function and also tried `filesGetMetadata`, but no luck so far. Thanks
In my iOS app, I am using UIDocumentPickerViewController to pick a file from a Dropbox file provider. I am using startAccessingSecurityScopedResource on the url I receive and register an NSFilePresenter for this url to get change notifications. When I read the contents of the file, I am using file coordination. Reading the…
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