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Joe F
Helpful | Level 6
6 years ago

Access to "Folder" is limited

In the last day or so, I have started to get this error message whenever I try and move a local file: "Access to "Folder" is imited We'll keep access to file.tmp the same. Add people to FOLDER to...
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mviens
Explorer | Level 4
6 years ago

I have one client that when she creates a folder inside of a team folder and then moves a file into it, recieves a warning message "Access to <file> is limited. We'll keep access to <file> the same. Add people to <folder> too if you want them to have acccess to anything else in it". We can choose "Continue Moving" and it appears to work as expected. I am unable to reproduce the behavior in my local environment. What is the issue?

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