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Dropbox Paper leave a shared document or folder
I am having a problem, I read an article about how to manage projects using paper, the article had a link to a sample Paper Document, I clicked on it and I was added to the Document list of people wh...
Seriously. What is the hold up?
A document was shared with me. I viewed it. I'm just a "viewer" so I have no way to remove myself. I show up in the "activity" of the document and I can't remove it from "Paper Home".
Please allow users to remove themselves from a document that was shared with them.
July 2019 and yet, the issue exist. Hello dropbox, anybody home??
- Jane
Dropbox Staff
The issue here is you're not listening to what we're saying Jane – we don't want to reach out to owners to have ourselves removed. We should have the ability to remove ourselves without needing to contact the author.
Jane, Are you kidding us? It takes your developers several hours to implement this functionality.
- Hi Jane,
Thank you for your feedback. As a business owner, we use Dropbox professionally to share files. The very basic of it without fireworks. It works great!
Paper, is more like a collaborative tool. So we tried it a couple weeks when it launched but realized its not adapted to our reality. So we completely stop using it and now we have a better way to collaborate with documents even with our clients.
When a company like Dropbox do not seems to care about people’s need, cause we really need to be able to remove ourself from a document, they will see their clients jump off the ship.
Regards, i second everybody here who asks for a decent way to remove oneself from a paper document — without reaching out to the owner or anybody else.
we are sharing (everybody with the link is an editor) one document with over 300 individuals right now, some of whom never or no longer want that document on their own dashboard, regardless of whether it counts against their dropbox size or not. right now they keep archiving it — without even knowing that they thus archive it for everybody else as well
Jane, I appreciate your ongoing efforts for the last 2+ years — but I do not get what you obviously do not get: your proposed solution for those 2+ years ("ask the owner to remove you") just does not fit a streamlined collaboration workflow efficiently.
why not offer a button "leave document" instead of that bold "invite" button on the very top?
or at the very least have a "leave" in the "..." ellipsis menu: instead of the infamous "archive"-option (which should be available for the owner only)
and could you please remove that "Solved: " from the title? it just does not ring true for so many of your users
- Jane
