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Moved a shared folder out of the Dropbox folder to the Desktop on Windows - how can we put it back?
Hi there!
We have a user with Dropbox on their Windows 10 machine. Somehow they've moved a shared folder out of the Dropbox folder and onto the desktop. It appears to be behaving like a Dropbox shared folder still (and it still appears in the web app and for other users) so it's not completely out of Dropbox. However the user doesn't want the folder on the desktop.
How can we move this back into the Dropbox folder? Regular file moving operations don't seem to work (keeps asking for Administrator permission to move the folder).
We've tried doing an uninstall\reinstall of Dropbox and this hasn't worked.
- Walter
Dropbox Staff
Hi there @DAC4 - sorry to hear about this.
Can you please send us a screenshot of the exact error they're getting when trying to move the shared folder back into their Dropbox folder?This will help us assist further.
Hi - see error here: https://imgur.com/a/egs9aMn
I have tried allowing Administrator permissions, but this doesn't work, and the user has full control permission for the Dropbox folder. I also tried adding Everyone to the Dropbox folder with Full Control permissions but this didn't work either.
- AngeliqueL
Dropbox Designer
Hi there,
I'm on the design team at Dropbox and did some asking around. This screen capture isn't a Dropbox prompt, it's a Windows system prompt. So the first question is whether they are actually trying to move it into Dropbox or somewhere else, where they don't have access.
Is it possible they are just seeing it in Explorer in the Dropbox folder and it looks like it's on their computer? If so, they can make it go away using Selective sync. I'm on a Mac but recently did that for a Marketing folder I didn't want to see (shown in attachment).If they had actually moved it to their desktop from the Dropbox folder, in the app, it would be deleted from Dropbox and not still showing there. So they could also have created a copy.
If you ask that person reply to this thread, we can take a look at their activity log and see what's actually happened. Otherwise, we're just guessing as to what they've done.
Hope that helps!
Angelique
