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Is my folder deleted from the owner of the shared folder?
Dear community members,
I am new to Dropbox, and I am confused by the rules of shared folders.
So I have a shared folder in my account that I am not the owner (someone shared it with me), but I have the ability to edit it.
I mistakenly shared a folder in that folder today, but I immediately deleted it. I was able to permanently delete that from the deleted files section. Is there any way that the owner of the shared files could still access the files that are permanently deleted? Or is there a way that he could set up the shared folder so that even though I permanently deleted the files, he still would be able to access a copy of them?
I truly appreciate your help.
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- Nancy
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hey armanaaa! Thanks for posting on our forum today.
If you permanently deleted this folder via your Deleted files page, and no errors occurred asking for the owner’s permissions to purge it, then you should be all set, and it shouldn’t be visible or restorable on their end.
Hope this helps.
Yes, there was no error. The way I understand is that if I upload something, I can permanently delete it; however, although I can delete other files not uploaded by me, I cannot permanently delete them. On the other hand, the owner of the folder, who shared the folder in the first place, can permanently delete any files, regardless of who uploaded them to the shared folder.
