Dropbox App
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When working with the Dropbox APIs, your app will access Dropbox on behalf of your users. You'll need to have each user of your app sign into dropbox.com to grant your app permission to access their data on Dropbox.
The selected scopes are applied to your access token and determine which API calls your application is allowed to execute. This level of access is then communicated to the end user on the Dropbox app authorization page where the user consents to sharing their data.
Prior to the introduction of scopes, Dropbox API apps would select only their level of content access (described below). Business API apps would select from one of four permission types to determine the API calls they have access to:
Always ask for the least amount permissions required by your applications. Requesting more scope and content access than required may result in end users not accepting your OAuth request and could impact your app review process.
Before you can get started, you'll need to register your app with Dropbox by creating a new app in the App Console. That page will guide you through the process of registering your app, selecting permissions, and obtaining an app key and secret (a.k.a. client_id and client_secret) and inputting redirect URIs.
If you'd like to quickly test out the Dropbox APIs using your own Dropbox account before implementing OAuth, you can generate an access token from your newly created app in My apps by pressing the button that says "Generate" in the OAuth 2 section of your app settings page.
PKCE is an open extension to OAuth 2.0, and solves this problem using dynamic codes instead of the static client_secret. Your app should construct a random code_verifier at authorization time of the user.
When an app requests team scopes for the Business API, the resulting token is associated with the team (rather than the administrator who authorized it). The user scopes requested as part of the team authorization define the calls that can be used when acting on behalf of a team member with Dropbox-API-Select-User.
Dropbox access tokens are short lived, and will expire after a short period of time. The exact expiry time of a token is returned by the token endpoint (or the redirect URI in implicit grant) - but is generally long enough for a reasonable web session.
Applications that require offline access to the API - meaning using the API when the end user is not actively interacting through your app - will not be able to prompt for re-authorization. These apps may instead use long-lived refresh tokens can be used to obtain new access tokens.
When using refresh tokens, your call to the /oauth2/token endpoint with the grant_type of authorization_code will return a short-lived access token and a refresh token, which should be securely stored.
To update your access token, call the /oauth2/token endpoint - specifying your refresh_token as a parameter and using the grant_type of refresh_token. The endpoint will return a new short-lived access token and a timestamp indicating its expiration time.
For existing apps migrating to short-lived tokens, the token_access_type parameter on your authorization URL enables requesting short-lived tokens per-auth, allowing you to update your code without versioning issues in the Dropbox App Console.
Instructions to move dropbox file location don't work. There is no "click sync then click move" option under the dropbox tray gear icon on Windows 10. I need to get the default location which is on an SSD boot drive moved to a larger drive.
Thank you so much. It worked great but the instructions on the dropbox website (pasted below) are wrong. It says for Windows, to select the gear icon first, then sync. I'm sure you knew what they were trying to say but we old engineers tend to be very literal. Thanks again.
Click the Dropbox icon in your system tray. The app window will open. In the top-right corner you'll see either the gear or your avatar icon. Click that and select Preferences. Alternatively, you can CTRL-left click the Dropbox icon in the system tray and select Preferences (this is the legacy menu).
This message isn't about moving files it's about moving folders. I have a mac. I just want to move a file from one folder to the other. If I try to copy and paste, it jsut makes another copy in the orginal folder that i want to move from! There's no drag or drop. I even tried moving it back to finder and then moving it back to the right folder and it keeps going to the wrong one!
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Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by the American company Dropbox, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, U.S. that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software. Dropbox was founded in 2007 by MIT students Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi as a startup company, with initial funding from seed accelerator Y Combinator.[13]
Dropbox brings files together in one central place by creating a special folder on the user's computer.[15] The contents of these folders are synchronized to Dropbox's servers and to other computers and devices where the user has installed Dropbox, keeping the same files up-to-date on all devices. Dropbox uses a freemium business model, where users are offered a free account with set storage size, with paid subscriptions available that offer more capacity and additional features. Dropbox Basic users are given two gigabytes of free storage space.[16] Dropbox offers computer apps for Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS, and Linux computers, and mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone smartphones and tablets.[17] In March 2013, the company acquired Mailbox, a popular email app, and in April 2014, the company introduced Dropbox Carousel, a photo and video gallery app. Both Mailbox and Carousel were shut down in December 2015, with key features from both apps implemented into the regular Dropbox service.[18] In October 2015, it officially announced Dropbox Paper, its collaborative document editor.[19]
Houston founded Evenflow, Inc. in May 2007[21] as the company behind Dropbox, and shortly thereafter secured seed funding from Y Combinator.[22] Dropbox was officially launched at 2008's TechCrunch Disrupt, an annual technology conference.[23] Owing to trademark disputes between Proxy, Inc. and Evenflow, Dropbox's official domain name was "getdropbox.com" until October 2009, when it acquired its current domain, "dropbox.com".[23] In October 2009, Evenflow, Inc. was renamed Dropbox, Inc.[24]
In an interview with TechCrunch's "Founder Stories" in October 2011, Houston explained that a demo video was released during Dropbox's early days, with one viewer being Arash Ferdowsi. Ferdowsi was "so impressed" that they formed a partnership. In regards to competition, Houston stated that "It is easy for me to explain the idea, it is actually really hard to do it."[25]
Dropbox saw steady user growth after its inception. It surpassed the 1 million registered users milestone in April 2009, followed by 2 million in September, and 3 million in November.[26] It passed 50 million users in October 2011,[27] 100 million in November 2012,[28][29] 500 million in 2016,[30][31] and 700 million in 2021.[32]
In July 2012, Dropbox acquired TapEngage, a startup that "enables advertisers and publishers to collaborate on tablet-optimized advertising".[33] The following December, Dropbox acquired two companies; Audiogalaxy, a startup "allowing users to store their music files and playlists in the cloud then stream them to any device",[34] and Snapjoy, a company that allowed users to "aggregate, archive and view all of their digital photos from their cameras, phones and popular apps like Flickr, Instagram and Picasa, and then view them online or via an iOS app".[35] In July 2013, Dropbox acquired Endorse, a "mobile coupon startup".[36]
In January 2015, Dropbox acquired CloudOn, a company that provided mobile applications for document editing and creation. At the same time, Dropbox told TechCrunch that CloudOn's base in Herzliya would become the first Dropbox office in Israel.[39] In July, Dropbox acquired Clementine, an enterprise communication service.[40]
In April 2014, Dropbox acquired photo-sharing company Loom (which would be shut down and integrated with the then-recently announced Carousel),[41] and document-sharing startup Hackpad.[42][43] Dropbox later announced in April 2017 that Hackpad would be shut down on July 19, with all notes being migrated to Dropbox Paper.[44][45]
In November 2022, Dropbox announced that an agreement to acquire several key assets from Boxcryptor has been signed. Boxcryptor is a provider of end-to-end zero-knowledge encryption for cloud storage services.[50]
At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, Dropbox was one of the first companies to shift to a remote workforce. In October 2020, the company announced its "virtual first" initiative which would shift the company to a long-term remote working plan, which launched officially April 2021.[52][53]
In January 2021, Dropbox CEO Houston announced the layoff of 315 employees, which is approximately 11 percent of the current workforce. The company said the reductions were necessary in order to focus the company team structure and focus on top level priorities. The software firm also announced that COO Olivia Nottebohm would be leaving the company on February 5, 2021.[54] In the same month, Dropbox announced it would sublease much of its office space in a transition to remote work.[55]
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