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rjwb
Helpful | Level 7
7 years ago

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...
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dragoner
Helpful | Level 5
6 years ago

Excellent information, thanks Brian1

Dropbox support have completely let us down with this one. It’s amazing what good can come from situations like this 😊

I’ve got close to 40 sites I manage with Dropbox so will be very keen to roll one over to Sync and see what I’m going up against!

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