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Dropbox

Use the Dropbox source configuration screen to enable the crawling and classification of content stored in Dropbox cloud storage.

IMPORTANT: Ensure you created and configured a Dropbox app before adding the source. See Configure Dropbox for Crawling for app requirements.

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Complete the following fields:

OptionDescription
App keyGenerated automatically as you create your Dropbox app.
App secretGenerated automatically as you create your Dropbox app. Click Show in the Dropbox app to view the value.
Authorization codeSelect Generate and copy the code from your app.
Access Shared Team Folder asIf you have team folders in your Dropbox namespace and you want to crawl one or more of these folders with Netwrix Data Classification, provide the email address of an account that has access to the team folders you want to crawl. For personal folders, this option isn't required. See the Dropbox Namespace guide for details on namespace types and access requirements.
OCR Processing modeSelect document images processing mode:
  • Disabled – document images will not be processed.
  • Default – defaults to the source settings if configuring a path, or the global setting if configuring a source.
  • Normal – images are processed with normal quality settings.
  • Enhanced – upscale images to increase detail and accuracy of results.
Source GroupNetwrix recommends creating a dedicated source group for Dropbox. If there are no existing Dropbox source groups, a source group named Dropbox Sources will be created automatically.
Pause source on creationSelect if you want to make other configuration changes before collection of the source occurs.