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Claire W.3's avatar
Claire W.3
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

Cannot move shared folder if I am not the owner

I am trying to reorganize my dropbox because I literally have thousands of folders, and I need them to be more logically nested.  This is no problem with shared folders that I own, but I can't move a...
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Matthew S.50's avatar
Matthew S.50
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago

Tried it via web version today; it didn't work. I get the message "Ask the owner to move this folder. [Name] owns [foldername] and can move it."

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Hannah
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2 years ago

Hey Matthew S.50, if you create a test top level folder in your account, that will be non-shared and won't contain any other shared folders, and try to move the shared folder into that, does it work?

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