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maltexease
Helpful | Level 6
5 months ago
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Can I prevent users from deleting folders?

Hi Walter​, 

Is there any progress on this over the last two years? I would also find it very useful if I could lock entire folders rather than just individual files.

Thanks,
Malte

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  • Nancy's avatar
    Nancy
    5 months ago

    Hey maltexease! Thanks for posting on our forum. 

    At the moment, it’s not possible to prevent a folder/file from getting deleted, if the members have edit permissions to it. 

    What you can do, if you’re the admin of a Dropbox team, is to prevent team members from permanently deleting files instead. 

    In any case, I’ve passed your feedback along to our team and they can also check your comments here. 

    For anything else, feel free to ping me.

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  • Nancy's avatar
    Nancy
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    5 months ago

    Hey maltexease! Thanks for posting on our forum. 

    At the moment, it’s not possible to prevent a folder/file from getting deleted, if the members have edit permissions to it. 

    What you can do, if you’re the admin of a Dropbox team, is to prevent team members from permanently deleting files instead. 

    In any case, I’ve passed your feedback along to our team and they can also check your comments here. 

    For anything else, feel free to ping me.

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