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28 TopicsHiding unshared Team folders from non-member Team members
I'm setting up a new Team Folder. Previously, users only saw the folders that they had access to. Now, all folders are listed. Those that they don't have permission to see are showing up with a Folder/Building/- symbol indicating that they don't have permission to see what's in those folders. I don't want unshared folders to be visible to everyone. Some of these folders are top-level company members only. I know this has been addressed in the past and at that time the only workaround was to set up all of the folders in your Personal Team Member folder. I am really hoping that there has been a change in the parameters since this post was made and resolved. https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Security-and-Permissions/Creating-locked-folders-that-are-invisible-to-rest-of-your-team/td-p/269177 This option seems like it would be an essential option everyone needs. Does one really need everyone on the team to know that there's a folder for Company Payroll or Payroll Review? or even as basic as Accounting? In my experience, people only want to see in the folders that they know the name of but yet don't have access to. I'm doing a Dropbox cutover this weekend and just discovered this issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!! The worst case is that I set them all up under my personal folder now and move them out if I find out that there's a better resolution out there. Thanks, community!!!Solved5KViews2likes18CommentsManage external participants access and links
Hello! I could really use better ability to view and manage external access to files and folders. Today it took hours to go through and verify that an external participant did not have access to files and folders. Even if I could search for an external participant's email (or partial email), and then review all the files and folders that had been shared with that person, it would have saved time and assisted me with the task of re-securing our files and folders.2.4KViews2likes5CommentsRegulate access to folders
We are a small society with a board, secretariat and several committees . We have a business Dropbox account with 4 team members. What we need: Multiple folders that are owned by Admin. Access to these folders upon invitation (but not through a link) by coworkers and people outside of de Dropbox Team. Some people should have edit rights, most should have viewing rights. Current status: folders are owned by Admin. Admin made folders inside the Team Folder. Team members were denied access (because I do not want all of them to have access) and I invited a Team member and people outside Dropbox team, some with edit and some with viewing rights. That is how I want it, but making it so seems to have messed with 1 Team member’s access both to Team folder as with a folder it owns itself. Can this be caused by how I organized things or not? Dropbox chat suggests I use groups to grant access to folders. Is this necessary/better? I don’t think I can give some group members edit and others viewing rights? I am questioning how many team members I need. Maybe 1 is enough, or just a second as backup?Solved6.2KViews1like3CommentsDropbox promoting team membership to random folder share recipients?
I recently shared a work folder with a mix of client and (their) sponsor staff. Soon after that I started receiving requests to join our business team. I've never seen this before so I'm assuming Dropbox decided it was in their business (profit) interest to push business account holders to fill up their team slots, so they need to ask for more? Now I suddenly have to deny all of these requests and explain that 'no, you don't need to join my team to have all the file access you need for this project.' And that 'team members are intended to be our business colleagues that need much broader file access, but Dropbox has just started promoting this to drive up their revenue.' It's extra work and it causes potential tension from client staff (or in this case sponsor staff too) that feel they are being denied access to something they need. Can I turn off this automated promotion by Dropbox? It's clearly a new thing and I'm guessing we can't shut it off, but it's obnoxious and inappropriate for the company to be driving us to admit team members that we don't want, just because we have a few open slots. Someone please help. Please stop this annoying business practice. Thanks, Joseph2KViews1like3Comments