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Linux users can delete folders (including content) that are not shared with them
Dropbox Business Standard with multiple users. Folders that are not shared with a user still show as an empty folder for that user. They can access the folder but not the files - it looks like an emp...
Walter
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThanks for the additional information and the screenshots too asnell - much appreciated.
It sounds like you may have set your top level folders to be editable by all team members - could it be that what's causing this?
If you choose Everyone, you can either use the Content page, the All files page, or the desktop app to manage the top level of the team space as outlined here.
Walter wrote:...
It sounds like you may have set your top level folders to be editable by all team members - could it be that what's causing this?
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It's just not true, Walter. As can be seen both from folder setup (web view) and from console output, the folder is correctly setup as writable for first user and read-only for second one. 🙂 Classical application BUG and not only. Not only because with inappropriate credentials, this should NOT be possible on the Dropbox server despite possible locally, but it happens (as can be seen). Just as a hint to your application development staff - setting read only to particular folder doesn't restrict this folder to be deleted, it only restricts changes to the folder content (there is nothing right now, because restriction set to the user 😁) - for reference: POSIX.
