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ryanrud
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

Notification when copying files to my external drive

Dear Community, I'm in a group and share a few files with my team but I'm not the admin. I would like to copy some files from Dropbox desktop to my exernal drive. Do the admin get notified when I...
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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    4 years ago

    If you just copy and paste them then no they wont be informed. 

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DerekG
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Dear Community,

I'm in a group and share a few files with my team but I'm not the admin.

I would like to copy some files from Dropbox online to my exernal drive. Do the admin get notified when I do that? Is the operation saved somewhere in the records

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Hannah
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2 years ago

Hey DerekG, thanks for your post.

 

Can you please clarify if you're a member of a Dropbox Business team? Or are you and the rest of your team sharing files through individual accounts?

 

If it's a Dropbox Business team account, is it a Standard or an Advanced plan?

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    DerekG
    New member | Level 2
    2 years ago

    Member of a business account

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      Hannah
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      2 years ago

      And are you on a Dropbox Business Standard or a Advanced plan?

       

      Dropbox Business Advanced admins have access to all file-related actions of the team, including copying/downloading files from the website.

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