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pchernoff
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago

Controlling access to a Team Folder

I am trying to get Team Folders to work. We have a DropBox account with 9 users. We definitely do not want all 9 users to have access to each Team Folder. The concept of having a regular shared folde...
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pchernoff
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago

Yes, that is what I eventually discovered. 

  1. Create Team Folder
  2. Create Group if an appropriate one doesn't exist
  3. Assign Group to Team Folder
  4. Delete Team from folder

I think this can be better described and perhaps made simpler. Team folders that do not involve the entire team are very important. When we had the switch over to the new schema last week we got very confused.

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Jay
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4 years ago

Thanks for the update, I'm glad to hear you were able to find a solution that works for you! 

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