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SubSolar
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Accidental folder move prevention on Dropbox Business team

Our company uses Dropbox for Business. Currently our folder structure is Lawyers and then under that we have Amy, Brian, Chris, etc (the names of the lawyers). The under each lawyer we have dozens of...
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SubSolar
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Jay, so they will also be able to create, delete and edit subfolders and files under the top level, correct?

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Jay
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2 years ago

That's correct, you can create a test folder when using the new settings to see how it works from their end.

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    SubSolar
    Explorer | Level 4
    2 years ago

    Well I can't really test it because we have a ton of existing data lol. If I switch the Top-level content management from Everyone to Only Admins I just don't want employees to be locked out of editing all our existing data.

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      Jay
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      2 years ago

      By making top level access to admin-only, this means that users can't create new folders outside of their personal folder. 

       

      If they have edit access to the team folders, then they can add files and folders into those locations.

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        SubSolar
        Explorer | Level 4
        2 years ago

        Oh, that's bad. So there's no way to allow them to edit everything underneath a top level folder, but prevent them from renaming, deleting or moving the top level folder?

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