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Can't Share Links with Edit Rights
Hi,
I want to share a folder on my Dropbox with someone outside of my team. I am using an admin account which is part of a Business Dropbox account. I can create a read-only link but when I go...
Hi Diana28, thanks for posting today.
Shared links can have edit privileges for Google Docs and Microsoft files.
The image you have there is for an Excel file, which is why there's a link to allow users to edit the file itself.
Any other file would not have this permission, so team folders can't be edited the same way, you'd need to share it directly with people on your team in order for them to add it to their Dropbox account and then be able to edit it.
If you need any more details, feel free to message back!
Здравко wrote:What would be the meaning "for a team folder" (something shared by the team) to have edit control when somebody create link? 🧐🤔 I have no idea! 🙂Can you explain me?
Hi Здравко
I realize this is very belated, but I wanted to answer your question because I'm facing this issue at the moment! There are several use cases where I need edit access to folders. For example, I have a folder with lots of files that need to be organized. I need to give someone access so they can organize all the the files in the folder, move them around, rename them, create new folders, etc... Pretty common scenario - such as photographers looking to sort through photos, corporate documents to be categorized, etc...
Then, lots of reasons to give them just a link instead of truly "sharing" the folder - the user doesn't have a Dropbox account, or they don't have enough space in their Dropbox account for the folder to be shared, it's a one-time contractor project so I just want to use an expiring link to do the job.
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I just called Dropbox support and they confirmed that edit capability does not exist for folder link shares. They only exist for file link shares. Hope this feature can be added because of all the use cases above!
mikeyonaboat wrote:...
Then, lots of reasons to give them just a link instead of truly "sharing" the folder - the user doesn't have a Dropbox account, or they don't have enough space in their Dropbox account for the folder to be shared, it's a one-time contractor project so I just want to use an expiring link to do the job.
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Hi mikeyonaboat,
I understand what you mean and fully agree with what you are asking for as idea. What you can't understand (seems) you are mixing different things. As a technical solution there is NOT need anything additional! Involving links will make the things even harder and difficult. As you mentioned some of your parties "don't have enough space in their Dropbox account". This is NOT a technical issue or need for new features, but company politics! 🤷 Yes, exactly company politics. Dropbox is trying to rise up incomes as forcing users overpay for the storage. You have your storage and other users (paying or not) you share with have to pay too for the same storage (as a something counted to their storage capacity). Dropbox tries excuse this with storage stacking protection. 😁 Seems many people (enough) believe in this. So, why Dropbox will invest additional money to give you workaround for something they try restrict? 🤔🤦 Is this sounding consistent?
There are other competitors which don't exploit their size and force you overpay. If you want to be more free, look around and find out offer that matches your needs. 😉 Storage stacking protection can be performed without overpay (as many others are doing it)!
mikeyonaboat wrote:... Hope this feature can be added because of all the use cases above!
Do you still believe this will happen? Better, don't rely. This will never happen while people Dropbox rely on are just... waiting! That's it.
