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Found a problem with this new release, it seems to remove file permissions when the file is sync'd from another computer.
For example lets say in Windows I've added a user to a folder. Then on that same machine I create a file withi nthat folder. It gains the permissions of the folder correctly.
But if I then edit that file on another computer, it syncs the change to the first computer but the file loses the permissions of its parent folder even though I've told Windows to make all the sub-folders and files within that folder inheret the permissions.
This creates an obvious problem where the users I've told to be able to edit those files (or even programs that create users for permission use) cannot then interact with those files anymore.
Please provide a fix for this as it's a huge feature regression.
MrAnderson wrote:Found a problem with this new release, it seems to remove file permissions when the file is sync'd from another computer.
For example lets say in Windows I've added a user to a folder. Then on that same machine I create a file withi nthat folder. It gains the permissions of the folder correctly.
But if I then edit that file on another computer, it syncs the change to the first computer but the file loses the permissions of its parent folder even though I've told Windows to make all the sub-folders and files within that folder inheret the permissions.
This creates an obvious problem where the users I've told to be able to edit those files (or even programs that create users for permission use) cannot then interact with those files anymore.
Please provide a fix for this as it's a huge feature regression.
I cant beleive they have done that AGAIN.
They did this years ago, I reported it when it was still in BETA and they did NOTHING.
They then added it to the main release.
Test the following : go to the .dropbox.cache folder and add a user permission, have a file update remotely and see if it gets the permissions of the .dropbox.cache folder if its the same fail on DB's part. They build the file in there then move it with out it getting its new location permissions.
Slack testing since this was a previous issue and they did not add it to the test board for checkiong, slack slack slack and not in the comunication platfom way DB!
I did that as I read about it in another comment on here a few days ago and it does work. Just now obviously every file I sync now gains those permissions even though I may not have wanted that etc
