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acmoeTX
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3 years ago

Understand Team Folders versus Folders in Personal Folder

We recently purchased the Advanced Plan for our business. I've been using Dropbox as a personal user for over 10 years. I'm not quite understanding how the file structure is with the business plan. T...
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Hannah
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3 years ago

Hey acmoeTX, thanks for joining our Community!

 

Regardless of a folder being a team folder or a simple shared folder, what you see in your account online, should appear in your local Dropbox folder as well.

 

If you can only download and comment on files in the folder online, is it possible that the admin has given you view-only access to these files?

 

Is this the page where you're accessing them from? And do you remember how they originally shared the files with you?

 

Let me know and we'll go from there.

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