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AdH7
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3 years ago
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How to share Family Folder with a third person, but only Online

Hello, I have shared the Family Folder with a person. I need to share the same Family Folder, with another person. I want that this person only have online access; dont download to his computer. ...
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    Mark
    3 years ago

    I'm afraid you cannot. There is no way to share online only. 

     

    You can used shared links to add permissions to remove download ability but I suspect it wont work on the family folder (as it usually doesn't on 'special' folders). https://help.dropbox.com/share/set-link-permissions

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3 years ago

I'm afraid you cannot. There is no way to share online only. 

 

You can used shared links to add permissions to remove download ability but I suspect it wont work on the family folder (as it usually doesn't on 'special' folders). https://help.dropbox.com/share/set-link-permissions

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