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wa4ywm
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

Can't seem to properly share a folder of photos

I am new to Dropbox and am having problems with folder sharing.   I have read the Dropbox help on sharing and I have looked at several questions in the forum. They all seem to say the same thing wh...
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    wa4ywm
    2 years ago

    Megan and Hannah

     

    Thank you for your direct comments and answers. I realize that I was trying to do something that cannot be done with my account - restrict access with a link.

    Thus, I am going to have my users create accounts so that I can restrict access.

    Thanks again.

     

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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
2 years ago
wa4ywm wrote:

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Also, when I hover over the icon to the right of the "Share" dropdown it says the user "..hasn't added to their dropbox yet" and the icon is grayed out. Why do they need to create a dropbox if all I want to do is share the folder? And why would they need to add anything to a dropbox? I want this to be as simple to use as possible.

 

Thinking that maybe sharing with an invitation is overkill I wondered if I could share just by sending them a link. ...

Hi wa4ywm,

😀 I suspect you count 2 different things as a single thing. There are different ways to share something. One of them, of course, is to share a link to whatever you want to share (file or folder). Another one (and something definitely different) is to share the file or folder between accounts, that will let syncing between accounts without any user interaction. When you share using link, the person can have or not an account (it's optional), but when you share the file or the folder themself then receiver must have account (the share comes up between accounts). According your description, you may have shared using both ways together. 🙂😉 Decide what you want and remove the other thing.

Good luck.

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