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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's avatar
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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