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brentonlang
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8 years ago

Change owner of folder without the owner being available

A disgruntled employee is the owner of a shared folder.  Is there a way to change the owner of the  shared folder without needing to ask that employee to make me the new owner.   I am the admin a...
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Walter
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6 years ago

Hi there JimmyPatel; happy Monday and thanks for using Dropbox.

 

I'm sorry for the late reply; are you still having issues with this?

 

In case you do and didn't choose to transfer the deleted account's data to another account that's a member of your team upon deleting the account in question, I'd suggest going to your members tab through your Admin Console and from the right hand pane, choose the 'Deleted' option under the 'Member type' header. 

 

Once you find the deleted account in question there, click on the gear icon to the right and select the 'Manage Files' option to transfer them to another member of the team. 

 

I hope this helps and please let me know if you have any more questions, Jimmy. 

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