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"files stay here for the team" prevents me from moving files from team to personal folder
I - a TEAM ADMIN - cannot move files or folders from a team folder, to my personal (i.e. ADMIN) folder. I get an incredibly annoying message "files stay here for the team". How do I get around this?
nada_dbx
Dropbox Product Manager
Dropbox Product ManagerHi msakten and folks - we've just released this fix to web and mobile. You should be able to move files and folders out of a team folder and into your personal folder. Thank you once again for the feedback and hope that makes your user experience more seamless using Dropbox! The desktop update will be coming in the next couple weeks due to the differing release schedule.
EDIT: We were able to push the change on desktop in an earlier release and it is now available as well.
Let us know if there's any additional thoughts on this experience!
So, while composing a post, I accidentally pasted a link to a private dropbox folder. I deleted it immediately from the post, of course
I continued drafting the post and then posted it.
SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!!!! THE PRIVATE LINK WAS STILL IN THE POST AS A KIND OF "ATTACHMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!"
So I had to edit it again to become a complaint about that, to see if it made the link go away. Did it work? Yes, I think so.
NEEDLESS TO SAY, I AM VERY ANGRY.
(Yes, I used also quickly used the dropbox web UI to delete the public link)
Let's see what happens if I add a link and then delete it.
I had a google link here, and then deleted it.
And now for what I actually meant to post.
nada_dbxI have found a lingering problem resulting from this change. There is no windows context menu option to "Copy Dropbox Link" for a top-level team directory like there is for its subdirectories. This is no doubt due to the different character of these two types of directories. However there's no good reason to leave it this way, because I can get the very same kind of link by viewing the top-level team directory on dropbox.com and clinking the link button. Therefore it seems like an oversight in the client.
I would also like to complain that the version number in the preferences isn't copyable. At risk of making a typographical error, allow me to transcribe it for you here: v203.4.4857S
UPDATE: these links are useless anyway because people have to request access. I guess that makes sense. I thought I was supposed to be the one person that finally figured out how to use this %(#*$? No, it's still just a complete surprise whenever I try to do anything. OK, time to deploy workaround: move EVERYTHING to a subdirectory of a top-level team directory which works in the sensible way.
The good news is, nobody would have been able to get access to my private directory through the accidentally-posted link because they would have to request the access with it (nothing tells you this when you create the link, but I guess it's supposed to be "obvious"?)
(I didn't update the last post because it would erase my beautiful "attached link" test)
MORE: when I rightclick a top-level team directory and pick "rename" it brings me to a different URL with "rename" in the querystring, which then auto-refreshes to the basic URL with no rename operation. At this point I'm not invited to rename it.
