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Jingyi51
11 months agoNew member | Level 1
Moving shared folder to a private folder without causing problem for others
Dear Community, I have a lot of folders shared from other people and they have been saved in the Dropbox folder on my computer. Now I want to create a new private folder called 'shared' and move all...
- 11 months ago
Jingyi51 wrote:
I want to create a new private folder ... and move all the shared folders inside ... I wonder if this will change where these folders are saved on the collaborators' computer ...
Yes, you can do this. You can move and even rename any shared folder within your account and it won't affect any other collaborator. I do this exact thing. I have a folder called Shared and I move all shared folders into it.
Rich
Super User II
11 months agoJingyi51 wrote:I want to create a new private folder ... and move all the shared folders inside ... I wonder if this will change where these folders are saved on the collaborators' computer ...
Yes, you can do this. You can move and even rename any shared folder within your account and it won't affect any other collaborator. I do this exact thing. I have a folder called Shared and I move all shared folders into it.
Jingyi51
11 months agoNew member | Level 1
Okay! Thank you so much!!
- Theresa11 months ago
Community Manager
Hi Jingyi51 and welcome to the Dropbox Community. I'm glad to hear you got your query answered by our amazing Super Users Mark and Rich 💪.
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