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Dropbox files no longer inherit folder permissions
Within my Dropbox folder, I have sub-folders with different Windows ACL permissions. Up until recently, whenever Dropbox synced a file it inherited its folder permissions perfectly.
Now it no longe...
I’ve only seen it at sites where Dropbox is installed on Windows server. If a file is modified from a Dropbox account at a remote site using Windows 10, when the modified file hits the Dropbox account on Windows server, the permissions are not honoured. I have just moved a bunch of users over to a Windows 10 pseudo server at a site, and the problem is no more. I’m only seeing the problems when Windows server is involved.
My thoughts are this is just a cash grab by Dropbox to try and get users to invest in their multi user plans as opposed to using a single account and sharing data out using standard Windows networking.
For support to just fob us off when they see a server OS is involved is pretty **bleep** lousy.
In my testing the same issue happens with Windows 10, even without doing any kind of network sharing. Here's how I reproduce it:
PC#1 - set special permissions on a file. For example, add another windows user to have full modify permission on this file
PC#2 - make changes to this file in local PC #2 dropbox.
PC#1 - Check permissions on the file after Dropbox sync's. The added user permission is gone, and the permissions of the file (as inherited from it's parent folder) are also gone. The permissions on the file change to the same permissoins as the .dropbox.cache folder (which by default gives "Users" only read-only permissions).
