Sharing a content item

A content management system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the content management system to:
• generate one or more sharing links for sharing one or more content items;
• prior to obtaining a respective content path for at least one of the one or more sharing links, create, for the one or more sharing links, respective entries in a sharing index at a content management system, each of the respective entries identifying a respective sharing link;
• receive, from a first client device, a first content sharing request identifying a first sharing link in a respective entry from the sharing index, the first sharing link being associated with a respective content item associated with the first content sharing request, wherein the respective entry does not include a content path of the respective content item;
• determine that the first content sharing request specifies the content path of the respective content item associated with the first content sharing request;
• and
• in response to determining that the first content sharing request specifies the content path, update the respective entry in the sharing index to include the content path.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising:

• instructions stored thereon which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
• generate one or more sharing links for sharing one or more content items;
• create respective entries for the one or more sharing links in a sharing index at a content management system, each of the respective entries corresponding to a respective one of the one or more sharing links;
• receive, from a first client device, a first content sharing request identifying a first sharing link having a respective entry in the sharing index, the first sharing link being associated with a respective content item associated with the first content sharing request, wherein the respective entry does not include a content path of the respective content item;
• determine that the first content sharing request specifies the content path of the respective content item associated with the first content sharing request;
• and
• in response to determining that the first content sharing request specifies the content path, adding the content path of the respective content item to the respective entry in the sharing index corresponding to the first sharing link.