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    <title>topic Can you restrict selective sync by device, instead of by user? in Security and Permissions</title>
    <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Security-and-Permissions/Can-you-restrict-selective-sync-by-device-instead-of-by-user/m-p/676619#M8333</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;Long story short, I need the user of an iMac in our office to have full dropbox access.&amp;nbsp; I need that same user to have access to only certain folders on an iPad.&amp;nbsp; On both the iMac and iPad, the user account is the same.&amp;nbsp; If I selectively sync certain folders to the iPad, any iPad user can simply click the dropbox app, selectively sync all folders, and then have full access to the entire dropbox folder.&amp;nbsp; This is obviously not acceptable from a security standpoint.&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;Is there a way to restrict which folders sync based on which device dropbox is used on, rather than by which account is logged in?&amp;nbsp; I'm really surprised I can't find a solution.&amp;nbsp; This is a security dealbreaker for us and will cause us to move to a different file sharing app if syncing can't be restricted by device.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2023 21:52:02 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Admin2020</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2023-04-13T21:52:02Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Can you restrict selective sync by device, instead of by user?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Security-and-Permissions/Can-you-restrict-selective-sync-by-device-instead-of-by-user/m-p/676619#M8333</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Long story short, I need the user of an iMac in our office to have full dropbox access.&amp;nbsp; I need that same user to have access to only certain folders on an iPad.&amp;nbsp; On both the iMac and iPad, the user account is the same.&amp;nbsp; If I selectively sync certain folders to the iPad, any iPad user can simply click the dropbox app, selectively sync all folders, and then have full access to the entire dropbox folder.&amp;nbsp; This is obviously not acceptable from a security standpoint.&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;Is there a way to restrict which folders sync based on which device dropbox is used on, rather than by which account is logged in?&amp;nbsp; I'm really surprised I can't find a solution.&amp;nbsp; This is a security dealbreaker for us and will cause us to move to a different file sharing app if syncing can't be restricted by device.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2023 21:52:02 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Security-and-Permissions/Can-you-restrict-selective-sync-by-device-instead-of-by-user/m-p/676619#M8333</guid>
      <dc:creator>Admin2020</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-04-13T21:52:02Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Can you restrict selective sync by device, instead of by user?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Security-and-Permissions/Can-you-restrict-selective-sync-by-device-instead-of-by-user/m-p/676627#M8334</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1675305"&gt;@Admin2020&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;No there is no way to do this. Simply put because the idea of Dropbox is that its single user per account (its actually against T&amp;amp;C's to use it otherwise and can/does cause accounts to be wiped without notice). So, from a Dropbox point of view there is no security issue because person A on computer is same as on iPad / web - they are just not putting everything locally from a space / structure point of view.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
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      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2023 21:57:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Security-and-Permissions/Can-you-restrict-selective-sync-by-device-instead-of-by-user/m-p/676627#M8334</guid>
      <dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-04-13T21:57:05Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Can you restrict selective sync by device, instead of by user?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Security-and-Permissions/Can-you-restrict-selective-sync-by-device-instead-of-by-user/m-p/676629#M8335</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hey &lt;SPAN style="color:var(--ck-color-mention-text);"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="background: var(--ck-color-mention-background); color: var(--ck-color-mention-text);"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1675305"&gt;@Admin2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;, thanks for posting your question to our Community.&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://help.dropbox.com/sync/selective-sync-overview" target="_blank"&gt;Selective sync&lt;/A&gt; is indeed a device specific feature, but it's only available on the Dropbox desktop app.&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;Like Mark mentioned, there's no way to restrict folders on the Dropbox app on a mobile device, like an iPad; you'd have to remove the user's access from the folders altogether.&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;I hope this clarifies things, but let me know if you have any questions.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2023 22:03:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Security-and-Permissions/Can-you-restrict-selective-sync-by-device-instead-of-by-user/m-p/676629#M8335</guid>
      <dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-04-13T22:03:07Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Can you restrict selective sync by device, instead of by user?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Security-and-Permissions/Can-you-restrict-selective-sync-by-device-instead-of-by-user/m-p/676631#M8336</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Got it.&amp;nbsp; Yikes!&amp;nbsp; I guess I understand why Dropbox does it but that leaves a giant hole in security at least with how I need to use my devices!&amp;nbsp; Thank you for your response clarifying that.&amp;nbsp; At least now I can stop spending time trying to find a solution and instead find a cloud service with that security option!&amp;nbsp; Thank you!&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2023 22:06:12 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Security-and-Permissions/Can-you-restrict-selective-sync-by-device-instead-of-by-user/m-p/676631#M8336</guid>
      <dc:creator>Admin2020</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-04-13T22:06:12Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Can you restrict selective sync by device, instead of by user?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Security-and-Permissions/Can-you-restrict-selective-sync-by-device-instead-of-by-user/m-p/676634#M8337</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;The one work around I could think of would be to create an iPad account per device and just share the folders to that device that is needed&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;e.g. &lt;A href="mailto:ipad1@hahah" target="_blank"&gt;ipad1@hahah&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="mailto:ipad2@hahaha" target="_blank"&gt;ipad2@hahaha&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;etc.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;And instead of using selective sync to restrict use sharing to do it.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2023 22:12:10 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Security-and-Permissions/Can-you-restrict-selective-sync-by-device-instead-of-by-user/m-p/676634#M8337</guid>
      <dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-04-13T22:12:10Z</dc:date>
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