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Phantomfoolery
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3 years ago
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account transfer

Hey there, We've been using dropbox and someone created the account that's been shared to me and a few others. We'd like to remove the person that started this thing so is there a way to remove the o...
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    Rich
    3 years ago

    Phantomfoolery wrote:

    How can we keep the information that's shared but have the owner not have access to it anymore?


    There's no way for you, as a member, to remove the owner from a shared folder. Only the owner can remove themselves from the folder. Instead, you'll need to create a new folder, share it with the people that need access, then copy the files from the old folder to the new folder.

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