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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...
SOLVED:
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.
Thanks. I'd gleaned that from the docs but wondered if Dropbox had its own form of symlink type method? I don't have access to the app source or the time/knowledge to make those sort of changes myslef I'm afraid. The song app has dropbox direct sync ability but does need the cloud data in a fixed structure.
I have heard a rumour on the song app info grapevine that there is a way of stucturing dropbox shared/owned data but have failed to find out how. I suspect from my own research that it may not be possible. The third party approach of using cloudhq to mirror google to dropbox does work but I have upwards of 40 users to port accross - its going to be painful.
- Mark
Super User II
wondered if Dropbox had its own form of symlink type method?
No it doesnt, sorry.
I have heard a rumour on the song app info grapevine that there is a way of stucturing dropbox shared/owned data
I wonder if what they are referring to is that within a standard Shared Folder you can rename/move it within your own Dropbox at will without impacting other users. For example you can move them all into a directory (I have one called 'Shared' (!)) and name them whatever you want without the other people in the share knowing you've done so - as long as its not to within another share. However, as you need to maintain folder structure etc. for an app this wont work - because the structure is actually app dependent more than anything else.
SOLVED:
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.
- Megan
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hi there, coppo23, happy Monday!
Thanks so much for sharing this with the rest of our Community users.
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