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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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Brian1's avatar
Brian1
Collaborator | Level 10
6 years ago

Latest word from support (this week) is that the engineering team is still looking into it, but in the meantime, they suggested the .dropbox.cache folder workaround discussed above.

 

Reading into that, I take it that they're admitting that something is going to be done about this feature/bug sooner or later.

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dragoner
Helpful | Level 5
6 years ago

The simple answer would be to roll back to the previous version that had was working perfectly well. Can picture them now, hanging off the fans throwing bananas at each other.

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    JCubio
    New member | Level 2
    6 years ago

    For those who use dropbox in windows server,

    Try adding the "authenticated user" in the ".dropbox.cache" folder. 

     

    I used this as a work-around, it is working fine so far. 

    Waiting for users to complain again. LOL

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