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breadwild
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago
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How to move a folder from my personal folder to the shared workspace

I just upgraded to the business account and all of my folders and files were put into what appears to be a personal folder. Within it, there is a folder that I want to be accessible to everyone (I've...
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    Walter
    8 years ago

    I am sorry I wasn't able to open any of the links you provided breadwild.

    Therefore, I reached out via email to the address you use for your forum's profile so we can work on this together. 

    Take a look at your inbox for my message and we'll take it from there. 

     

     

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Trailerman
Helpful | Level 7
7 years ago

I have the same problem.

I just upgraded to Dropbox business, and my entire Dropbox fileset has now been moved into my personal folder.  These are not currently shared folders, they are my entire Dropbox dataset, which I now need to make available to other team members.

I now need to be able to share some of them with my team, and my understanding is that this is best done by moving them into the Team Folder.   However, when I try and move any of the folders in my personal folder, the Team Folder is greyed out as a destination to move them to.

I own all the folders, and am the admin on the business account.

Please can you provide some clear information on how this is achieved.

 

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Walter
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7 years ago

Sorry to hear you're having issues with this Trailerman.

At this point, let me clarify that since member folders (your personal space) are specifically designed for each user to organize their own way, they can’t be moved, deleted or shared in their entirety.

If you want to share some of the content in your member folder, you can move it to the team space share it directly by clicking “share”.

For more information, please take a look at the following Help Center article:

https://help.dropbox.com/teams-admins/team-member/team-space-overview

I hope this helps and please let me know if you have any additional questions; I'll be happy to follow up. Oh, and happy Monday!

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