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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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Jay
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2 years ago

Thanks for the clarification. In general, the same would apply for moving files or folders from the team folder into the personal folder. 

 

This is for security purposes to prevent team members from losing access to data and this applies to team admins as well trying to do the same thing.

 

The only method to get files from a team folder into a personal folder would be to copy them to that personal folder.

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MrSmrth
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

I have the same issue today for something I have been doing with Dropbox for years.

The explanation for this issue is very disappointing and must be false since it has never occurred before. Something must have changed recently to cause this annoying issue, which requires a tedious workaround.

I wish it could be solved so we can use Dropbox as before or at least explained to us why it is happening now.

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