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Linux users can delete folders (including content) that are not shared with them
Dropbox Business Standard with multiple users. Folders that are not shared with a user still show as an empty folder for that user. They can access the folder but not the files - it looks like an empty folder. Linux (Ubuntu 22.04) users can simply delete that empty folder, which results in Dropbox removing it and its contents from all other users. That seems like a serious issue. Windows users get a message and Dropbox refuses to delete, but that's not the case in Ubuntu, it has to be recovered from Deleted Files - again.
- Walter
Dropbox Staff
Hey asnell, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Can you please clarify if those are team folders, shared folders or personal folders perhaps?
Are all members of the team noticing this or a specific one or a team admin?
If you could also share some screenshots so that we can have a visual too, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks!
Hi Walter,
This happens with shared folders, created as shown in first image.
The following images show two Linux computers. The one on the left is the user with shared access, the one on the right does not have shared access. These show command line but the same happens when deleting the folder using a file manager. The folder, which appears empty, can be deleted by the user without shared access.
The shared folder "notforall" has a file "testfile" in it.
This happens with multiple Linux machines I have here running Ubuntu 22.04 and Linux Mint 21. It happens the same with different users. It does not happen with Windows computers running the same users, they get access denied.
Thank you.
Andrew
- Walter
Thanks for the additional information and the screenshots too asnell - much appreciated.
It sounds like you may have set your top level folders to be editable by all team members - could it be that what's causing this?
If you choose Everyone, you can either use the Content page, the All files page, or the desktop app to manage the top level of the team space as outlined here.
