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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

Hi rjwb,

 

How does Onedrive go about recovering the entire library back to a point in time if required, like in the event of a cryptolocker?

When I checked it out a couple years ago it didnt have that functionality, in fact all it allowed was the recovery of previous versions of MS Office docs - not the entire library.

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KiwiMark
Explorer | Level 4
6 years ago

dragoner - your question belogs to another thread. This thread is about the changes to inheritable folder permissions.

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    dragoner
    Helpful | Level 5
    6 years ago

    The thread also discusses the lack of support from Dropbox, and various discussion on alternatives available to users. Best just to keep it all in the one area – while we’re on the topic

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