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I removed members but folder is still shown as shared. Why?
I have removed all the members from a folder which was shared before. Even after removing all the members the folder still is treated as a shared folder. The share folder icon is still there. If I wa...
Hey there spaul - sorry to hear about this.
Can you tell me the exact steps you take to do this as I am not able to reproduce this on my end? Once I unshared the folder it became a normal folder immediately (without the 2 little people icon on it).
Moreover, currently, there's no way to share a folder that already contains a shared folder.
One workaround is to share a link to the parent folder of the shared subfolder. While this would give recipients of the link access to all folders in that path, any changes they make to files in that folder won't sync with your Dropbox. If you'd like to give them read-write access to the parent folder instead, you can unshare the subfolder, share the parent folder, and then share a link to the subfolder.
Let me know what you find and we'll take it from there. Thank you.
Just after I posted this I found the solution so Dropbox won't see the folder as shared anymore.
- Click on the Share button for the folder
- Go to the settings icon
- Bottom left, you have the option to unshare folder
Sure, see below. Thanks!
Jay
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHi dfscott12, it looks like this isn't a shared folder, could it be part of a shared folder itself? What icon is in the folder when viewing from the site?
- Yes, I removed the shared participants but it is still showing up with the shared icon on the folder. Inside the this folder I have other unshared shared folders that do the same thing. The problem is I need to share a different folder but it won’t let me because it thinks I have more than 10 shared folders in the master.
- Mark
Super User II
Hi dfscott12
When you removed the people from the share did you also remove yourself? That step is needed to actually 'close' the share - if you are still in the folder as a shared user even if nobody else is the system treats it as shared.
I cannot remove myself from the folder, when I open the tab to show "who can access", it says owner next to my name and will not let me change it.
The unshare option is still not showing up as an options.
