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msakten
Helpful | Level 7
2 years ago

"files stay here for the team" prevents me from moving files from team to personal folder

I - a TEAM ADMIN - cannot move files or folders from a team folder, to my personal (i.e. ADMIN) folder. I get an incredibly annoying message "files stay here for the team". How do I get around this?
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msakten
Helpful | Level 7
2 years ago

Hi Jay, is this a planned feature? Because with all due respect, the fact that I cannot move files between folders that I created, and that I am the owner and admin of, and that I'm going to have to instead copy tens of thousands of files, hundreds of GB, seems absolutely ridiculous to me.

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Jay
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2 years ago

Currently, there isn't a feature to allow you to convert a team folder into a personal folder, nor is there any information on if this will change in the future. This has been the same since Dropbox Business teams were created.

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    msakten
    Helpful | Level 7
    2 years ago

    Hi @Jay, I'm sorry if there has been any confusion. I am not trying to convert a team folder into a personal folder. I am trying to move a file from inside a team folder, into my private dropbox folder. Please see the images and video from previous posts. I've linked the video again below for your convenience. 

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    Angela1204j
    Helpful | Level 5
    2 years ago

    My thread had been merged with this thread, and I have already read this thread, so I posted my thread in the hope that Dropbox will come to its senses and remove this insanely annoying feature. So has it been disabled? Because copying then deleting is asking for mistakes (such as deleting the wrong file) to happen.

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    mgambrell
    Collaborator | Level 9
    2 years ago

    As a workaround you can open two windows, copy from one, tab to the other, paste there, and if it worked, tab back to the original window and delete the files which should still be selected. In case you want to get work done while dropbox fiddles.

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