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rjwb
Helpful | Level 7
5 years ago

Dropbox files no longer inherit folder permissions

Within my Dropbox folder, I have sub-folders with different Windows ACL permissions. Up until recently, whenever Dropbox synced a file it inherited its folder permissions perfectly. Now it no longe...
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Lusil
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Hi there volfman, thanks for checking in with us. 

I've moved your post to this thread where other users have reported a similar behavior as to what you describe. 

As Fiona also mentions here, the Dropbox desktop app tries its best to ensure consistent permissions in the Dropbox folder, and you may find custom permissions are not maintained to ensure that the files sync to other devices without any issues. 

I understand that this may not be the ideal reply you were looking for, but thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us. 

Let me know if you have any other questions!

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melodramatic
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago

I am also having this issue. Have been using this system for many years and over the last few months have been struggling to work out why the permissions have suddenly been failing. Would also like to put my vote in for Dropbox to deal with this issue.

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