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Removing external user from all shared folders

Removing external user from all shared folders

TonyEnglund
Collaborator | Level 9

Hi Dropbox and forum,

 

There seems to be no way of removing all access of an external user to files/folders shared to him.

 

Lets say you have a team folder with "Projects", and in this folder you have hundreds of subfolders shared with different external collaborators. One user has been invited to 70 of the subfolders, and you need to remove his access to everything.

 

As far as i see, there is no other way to remove this user but to go through every one of the 70 folders and manually remove him.

 

If this isn't possible, it should really be a high priority feature request.

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Walter
Dropbox Staff

Hey @TonyEnglund, thanks for dropping by to share your thoughts on this.

 

It's true that this isn't possible at the moment, but I found this idea which kinda echoes what you had in mind. 

 

You can have a look and upvote it as well to  show your interest in this. 

 

Let me know if you have anything else to add or ask. 


Walter
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TonyEnglund
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Thanks @Walter ,

 

But, that it on the other end of this problem. Sure would be nice to be able to bulk remove users from ONE folder, but my question is to remove ONE user from all folders. Both ways should of course be possible to do.

Walter
Dropbox Staff

Oh, I see - thanks for pointing this out, Tony.

 

In that case, you might be interested in the idea outlined here or maybe this one?


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Playhouse
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I agree this is a function that I assumed already existed. It is incredibly tedious and inefficient to remove someone folder by folder...

 

It would also be very useful to view what each user has access to sorted by user.

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