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jubei
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

When I share a link to a folder, the user can create a folder and upload photos to it?

As per title. I had thought sharing a link to folder only permited view and download only. But several times when I have shared a link, the other person has been able to create a subfolder within tha...
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Mark
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2 years ago

Dropbox launched a 'trial' which allowed people who were sent shared links to add to Dropbox and it defaulted to a typical Shared Folder set up (even though thats obviously not what was intended). This meant they could read/write/create folders etc. within those links. 

 

However, they have now stopped this and links work again as they should have before - read write only. 

 

And no, thankfully, they cannot/couldnt see files elsewhere.

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