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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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Kashuey
Helpful | Level 6
6 years ago

Dropbox, I find your response tone deaf.  Clearly there is a usibility problem with this "new feature".  My users are losing valuable time navigating past this dialog box.  We generate 100s of files programatically in the dropbox folder at a time.  The work around is to turn Dropbox off.  Again we are paying for Dropbox Business Advanced and it is unuseable.  If this is not fixed we will be forced to look for another solution.

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netsquire
Helpful | Level 6
6 years ago

Same problem starting recently in macOS. Thanks for starting this thread Joe F. I contacted Dropbox and was told that it's a feature and that I can tell the Finder to not warn me anymore. However, there's no option to turn off future warnings. I'm awaiting a response but this was clearly recently added and the support team didn't get the memo.

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