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Nate99
New member | Level 2
12 months ago
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Adding a new person shouldn't add them to the Dropbox Team

Recently we have added two entry level members to our firm. We purchased licenses for them and wanted to add them to SOME Dropbox folders pertinent to their work. Unfortunately, Dropbox is telling me...
  • DBoxTips's avatar
    12 months ago

    Hello Nate99 

    You can achieve this using groups:

    https://help.dropbox.com/account-access/groups

    There is a default group called “Everyone at [Your Company/Team]”


    You group users that need access to specific team folders in a group (e.g. “Managing Partners and Partners”) and then change the permissions for each of those team folders to be that group instead of the default “Everyone at …” group.

    Hope this helps.

    Andrew (DBoxTips)

     

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