Hi John,
Nothing has gone wrong with your implementation, Dropbox are making changes to the way their API works, due to this we have had to make a few changes also.
In short any sites that are already connected to Dropbox will backup to “apps/updraftplus” and new sites connected to Dropbox will backup to “apps/updraftplus.com”.
If you want all your sites to backup to one folder you can reauthenticate the sites that are backing up to “apps/updraftplus” and they will then backup to the new “apps/updraftplus.com”.
A detailed explanation for these changes is as follows:
Dropbox are upgrading from OAuth v1 to OAuth v2 with this comes their new API and the old API will soon be deprecated.
This new API brought with it a lot of new changes which meant rewriting alot of the Dropbox code.
To ensure this upgrade goes smoothly for all our users we created a new Dropbox app, but because Dropbox forces Apps to be unique the name had to change from Updraftplus to Updraftplus.com.
Sites that are already authenticated with Dropbox will automatically be upgraded to OAuth v2 during your sites next interaction with Dropbox and that site will remain on the old app Updraftplus.
New sites will automatically be put onto the new App Updraftplus.com and will instantly start using OAuth v2 there is no v1 support on this App.
Reauthenticating a old site will move it to the new App.
This was implemented this way so that the upgrade from OAuth v1 to v2 would be transparent to existing users/sites as we would not be able to force them to the new App automatically as this would involve them having to manually authenticate before they would be able to backup.
Then for new users/sites they would be put onto the new App from the start.
I hope this clears it up a bit as to why it has been implemented this way. There should also be a FAQ/Blog post going out soon explaining these changes.
If you have any further questions about this issue please don’t hesitate to ask.
Best wishes,
Ashley
