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When you didnt share a folder you created with the rest of your team, that folder was invisible to them before recently. now the whole team can see the folder, it just now appears as a locked folder...
i don't want the rest of my team to even see the folders that they cannot access.
how do i do this please?
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Hey again @jonob thanks for taking the time to write back!
I completely understand your thought process on this and get your point of view! As mentioned, I'll include all the comments in my feedback report regarding this thread.
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To try and explain the purpose of the new structure to anyone curious:
We've got a cool example on the Help Center, showing how this would look for a new team member:
So, even though the team space is accessible to the entire team, not all content is accessible, and can limited depending on what each members role is on the Business, and what content they need access to.
Admins can also choose if they'd like everone or only admins on the team to have edit-access to the top - level of the team space.
So, if you've got a Business with different departments, you would organize it somewhat like this:
Member Folder
Karina LastName (my personal space)
(I can create nested shared folders if I'd like, or keep files private - each one of my team members has their own team member folder, and no one else can see each others)
Team Space
HR (shared folder)
Marketing (shared folder)
Finance Team (read only folder)
Legal (no access folder)
Management (no access folder)
If you'd like to prevent members from seeing the main department folders, you can label the top-level with generic names (turn all folders into "no access" folders, and sub-categorize all the different departments and levels of your Business.
Hope this example helps anyone experiencing any confusion, or simply wanting to get a visual understanding of what this looks like.
Happy Friday!
Karina
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@Sanchez wrote:
Hey @jonob, welcome to our community!It sounds like you have one of our new Dropbox Business accounts, on which the folder structure has changed a bit. There’s an article discussing this new team space and member folders here.Unfortunately, what you’re asking for here isn’t currently an option, as all folders in the team space are visible to all team members. I know this isn’t ideal, but what you could do would be to share a folder from within your team member folder (the purple one). This would give users you share it with access to this folder only, and they would not see anything else in your member folder, as it is private - for your eyes only!Cheers
I believe I have the older structure and like the way it works. I am able to create multiple team folders and hide their names and access with permissions. Will I be forced to use the new structure at some point or how will that work? Thanks
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this doesnt make any sense at all though...??
If you dont want to share a folder to your overall team, you dont want to share it - so why is dropbox creating any visual folder shared to the team relating to the folder you don't want to share with them??
Really random and very annoying as a user who wants to create private folders
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Thanks for
@Sanchez wrote:
Hey again, @rmckinnon10,Our team doesn’t currently have plans to make this change mandatory for teams already on the “old” structure. However, if such a move ever becomes part of our road-map, we will give you plenty of notice and support!Cheers
Thanks for following up. -Bob
Hey again @jonob thanks for taking the time to write back!
I completely understand your thought process on this and get your point of view! As mentioned, I'll include all the comments in my feedback report regarding this thread.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
To try and explain the purpose of the new structure to anyone curious:
We've got a cool example on the Help Center, showing how this would look for a new team member:
So, even though the team space is accessible to the entire team, not all content is accessible, and can limited depending on what each members role is on the Business, and what content they need access to.
Admins can also choose if they'd like everone or only admins on the team to have edit-access to the top - level of the team space.
So, if you've got a Business with different departments, you would organize it somewhat like this:
Member Folder
Karina LastName (my personal space)
(I can create nested shared folders if I'd like, or keep files private - each one of my team members has their own team member folder, and no one else can see each others)
Team Space
HR (shared folder)
Marketing (shared folder)
Finance Team (read only folder)
Legal (no access folder)
Management (no access folder)
If you'd like to prevent members from seeing the main department folders, you can label the top-level with generic names (turn all folders into "no access" folders, and sub-categorize all the different departments and levels of your Business.
Hope this example helps anyone experiencing any confusion, or simply wanting to get a visual understanding of what this looks like.
Happy Friday!
Karina
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