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kchris's avatar
kchris
New member | Level 1
12 days ago

Give us the ability to hide the names/emails of members in shared folders.

The hide feature for viewer visibility is strictly for link sharing. Turning off this feature still enables all members inside the folder to view each others emails and names. This is a problem for years and still no new feature added to remedy this issue. It is a HUGE issue when you have 100+ clients agents and not being able to update 100+ folders every 2nd day if a small update occurs..so adding all the emails of the different members (agents etc..) isnt possible for 1 folder only. Since they all can see who else is in the folder (which is a BIG no no)... and no we dont want to share a link..I want to be able to open dropbox, see the folder, click it, view everything, and not be able to see all the competition under the members list. simple just add an option to disable member viewing as well...more than 5 years now and counting..nothing has been done to adress this NEED from the consumer. I pray I am just so misinformed and that there is some feature or setting hiding somewhere to help with this. (8 months ago I was informed by a dropbox member (alicedropbox) that this feature is not available YET, so I hope atleast its being worked on). I am a little frustrated as this will save so much time and effort, being able to edit only one folder after each update or change.

  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
    kchris wrote:

    I pray I am just so misinformed and that there is some feature or setting hiding somewhere to help with this.

    You're not missing anything. Shared folders are intended for collaboration, so members can see all other members. This is the intent.

    I'd suggest searching the Ideas section to see if anyone has started a new idea for this feature, and if not, post your own idea. Just be sure to do the search first. It doesn't help, at all, to have multiple posts for the same idea. You want to vote on an existing one if it exists so it gets some traction.

    • kchris's avatar
      kchris
      New member | Level 1

      Thank you Rich. Appreciate the advice.

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