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How to move (link to) data shared with me without upsetting the owner?
I have a number of teams that share info (song lyrics) through a song lyric package that expects a contiguous folder structure - eg
Root Song folder on dropbox
--- My material subfolder
---Band...
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Thanks to all who have helped. I think its my lack of understanding and have got it working as follows:
If you share a ROOT dropbox folder with someone writeable and they move it within their dropbox it DOES change your copy which is not desired. If you share it read only they can't move it.
If you share a SUBfolder of something in your dropbox with someone - it initially appears in their root folder. They can then move it without effecting your copy.
I made the mistake of sharing a dropbox root folder with a collection of folders that other folk would want read access to. (Quick click - share the whole pot of info in one go!) They had to put up with leaving that collection of folders in their root dropbox folder - of no use with the app we all use. I went back and shared each individual folder in the pot - they can then move them to where they prefer.
Mark
Super User II
Super User III need to move(create shortcut to)
This is where it wont work in Dropbox I'm afraid - Dropbox doesn't sync symlinks or junctions, it just ignores them.
However, you mention the Google API, so if you are good at programming could you do something with Dropbox's API?
