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vineetdhanawat on Nov 14, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Visualize your Dropbox Space Usage

"This app will be able to read and modify everything."

Why modify?

kcon on Nov 14, 2013 [–]

Unfortunately, there's currently no read-only access for Dropbox API users to access all of the user's files and folders (e.g. to make a treemap visualization). It's read/write or nothing.

vineetdhanawat on Nov 14, 2013 | [–]

ouch.

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