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All our family members have their own flow, and we share folders based on what we need at the time (photos, tax docs, etc). Forcing shared folder just crowds list of folders for everyone, especially ...
Agreed, begin able to disable, hide or rename would be great. Right now it is just siting there in the middle of my folder structure being unused. At least renaming I could put it at the end of my list with a name like: x_FamilyRoom