List Dropbox account features
Retrieves and displays the enabled features and capabilities for the connected Dropbox account.
watermint toolbox
stores credentials into the file system. That is located at below path:
OS | Path |
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Windows | %HOMEPATH%\.toolbox\secrets (e.g. C:\Users\bob.toolbox\secrets) |
macOS | $HOME/.toolbox/secrets (e.g. /Users/bob/.toolbox/secrets) |
Linux | $HOME/.toolbox/secrets (e.g. /home/bob/.toolbox/secrets) |
Please do not share those files to anyone including Dropbox support. You can delete those files after use if you want to remove it. If you want to make sure removal of credentials, revoke application access from setting or the admin console.
Please see below help article for more detail:
Description |
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Dropbox: View basic information about your Dropbox account such as your username, email, and country |
For the first run, tbx
will ask you an authentication with your Dropbox account.
Please copy the link and paste it into your browser. Then proceed to authorization. After authorization, Dropbox will show you an authorization code. Please copy that code and paste it to the application.
watermint toolbox xx.x.xxx
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1. Visit the URL for the auth dialogue:
https://www.dropbox.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&response_type=code&state=xxxxxxxx
2. Click 'Allow' (you might have to login first):
3. Copy the authorization code:
Enter the authorization code
Please download the pre-compiled binary from Latest Release. If you are using Windows, please download the zip file like tbx-xx.x.xxx-win.zip
. Then, extract the archive and place tbx.exe
on the Desktop folder.
The watermint toolbox can run from any path in the system if allowed by the system. But the instruction samples are using the Desktop folder. Please replace the path if you placed the binary other than the Desktop folder.
This document uses the Desktop folder for command example.
Windows:
cd $HOME\Desktop
.\tbx.exe dropbox file account feature
macOS, Linux:
$HOME/Desktop/tbx dropbox file account feature
Note for macOS Catalina 10.15 or above: macOS verifies Developer identity. Currently, tbx
is not ready for it. Please select “Cancel” on the first dialogue. Then please proceed “System Preference”, then open “Security & Privacy”, select “General” tab.
You may find the message like:
“tbx” was blocked from use because it is not from an identified developer.
And you may find the button “Allow Anyway”. Please hit the button with your risk. At second run, please hit button “Open” on the dialogue.
DIRECT
if you want to skip setting proxy.Report file path will be displayed last line of the command line output. If you missed the command line output, please see path below. [job-id] will be the date/time of the run. Please see the latest job-id.
OS | Path pattern | Example |
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Windows | %HOMEPATH%\.toolbox\jobs\[job-id]\reports |
C:\Users\bob.toolbox\jobs\20190909-115959.597\reports |
macOS | $HOME/.toolbox/jobs/[job-id]/reports |
/Users/bob/.toolbox/jobs/20190909-115959.597/reports |
Linux | $HOME/.toolbox/jobs/[job-id]/reports |
/home/bob/.toolbox/jobs/20190909-115959.597/reports |
Feature setting for the user
The command will generate a report in three different formats. report.csv
, report.json
, and report.xlsx
.
Column | Description |
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paper_as_files | When this value is true, the user’s Paper docs are accessible in Dropbox with the .paper extension and must be accessed via the /files endpoints. |
file_locking | When this value is True, the user can lock files in shared folders. |
team_shared_dropbox | This feature contains information about whether or not the user is part of a team with a shared team root. |
distinct_member_home | This feature contains information about whether or not the user’s home namespace is distinct from their root namespace. |
If you run with -budget-memory low
option, the command will generate only JSON format report.
In case of a report becomes large, a report in .xlsx
format will be split into several chunks like follows; report_0000.xlsx
, report_0001.xlsx
, report_0002.xlsx
, …