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arielomfgco
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7 years ago
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Renaming Folders - Does this break the link in the content that's in the folder?

We have a ton of shared folders on the main frame of our team dropbox - We also have a lot of PDFS stored in said folders that have been shared.  If we change the names of the shared folders - will ...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    7 years ago
    Thanks for the info, if they’re shared links, renaming or moving the folders to another folder in Dropbox won’t break the links.
     
    There are however three instances where the link is broken:
     
     
    Let me know if this helps!
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Jay
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7 years ago
As you haven’t clarified if you’re creating shared links, or shared folders, I can’t give an answer yet.
 
Both of them are radically different.
 
The shared link is available to access, even if they don’t have a Dropbox account, and is a read-only link, they can’t edit files in that link.
 
The shared folder requires that the invitee has a Dropbox account of their own, and can be shared with edit access.
 
Assuming the latter, if you want the clients to see the new names of the folders, you’ll need to unshare, rename and reshare the folders to them.
 
If you’re referring to shared links, then they might break depending on the sharing permissions of the folders they are being moved to.
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arielomfgco
Explorer | Level 3
7 years ago

Got it. These are shared links to folders, that have lots of files and subfolders in them. 

The clients are able to download assets from there without having a Dropbox account. 

If we change the names of the parent folders of the folders that we've shared through link sharing  (by unsharing the parent folder, renaming the parent folder, and resharing with our team) ... will the shared links to the folders that live within the parent folder break?

-Ariel 

  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
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    7 years ago
    Thanks for the info, if they’re shared links, renaming or moving the folders to another folder in Dropbox won’t break the links.
     
    There are however three instances where the link is broken:
     
     
    Let me know if this helps!
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      arielomfgco
      Explorer | Level 3
      7 years ago

      Got it! 

      Yes that definitely helps. 

      I changed the name of one folder and "reshared" it. Will that update the name for the folks who have been shared on it. 

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        Jay
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        7 years ago
        If by resharing you mean giving the people the shared link again, then yes, they’ll see the new name of the folder at the top of the link.
         
        Just like if you update files in the link, and they refresh the link on their end, they’ll see the new updates to it there.

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