Your workflow is unique 👨‍💻 -  tell us how you use Dropbox here.

Forum Discussion

MC1111's avatar
MC1111
Explorer | Level 4
2 hours ago

Why do people have the permissions to download my shared files when I removed them?

I upgraded to the Professional plan to have my share options be very restrictive.  To send files with no access to download, have a password, and an expiration date.  I'm also the only person allowed...
security
Shared Files
shared links
Jay's avatar
Jay
Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
1 hour ago

Hi MC1111​, thanks for messaging the Community!

When you shared a file, did you share it directly to their Dropbox account, instead of creating a shared link to the file?

Only the latter option will prevent other users from downloading the files in the shared link if you've disabled that option in the link settings.

This will help me to assist further!

About Create, Upload, and Share

Find help to solve issues with creating, uploading, and sharing files and folders with Dropbox.

The Dropbox Community team is active from Monday to Friday. We try to respond to you as soon as we can, usually within 2 hours.

If you need more help you can view your support options (expected response time for an email or ticket is 24 hours), or contact us on X, Facebook or Instagram.

For more info on available support options for your Dropbox plan, see this article.

If you found the answer to your question in this Community thread, please 'like' the post to say thanks and to let us know it was useful!