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Preventing folders from being moved
Hello fellow Dropbox users.. I am the team admin on a business account. We have implemented a folder structure across our team. Includes folders and sub-folders. We would now like to "lock" our new folder struture, while still allowing team members to accessall folders and sub-folders. We need team members to be able to upload, download, edit and save files within the folders and sub-folders. Is this possible? Our main goal is to prevent team members from accidiently moving or dragging folders or sub-folders into the wrong place. Do any fellow team admins have any tips for business accounts?Solved6.4KViews12likes6CommentsRemoving external user from all shared folders
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.5.4KViews10likes4Comments
Way to stop dropbox disallow people from requesting to join our team?
Is there a way to not give people the option to join our team? Every time I send a file to someone outside of my dropbox team (which is almost daily) they must get some kind of additional email telling them they can request to join our team, because I usually get a follow up email with random people who got the file asking to be part of my company's team. Is there a way to stop this? Or lock our team from outsiders?7.5KViews10likes19Comments
Accidentally merged into Business team
Hello, Earlier today we received a pop-up, with the option to add another Shared Folder to our Dropbox. As we are a business in project management, we have many shared folders with our partners and accepted this folder. The pop-up only came with one option and that was to combine. However, this folder has combined our Dropbox with the other teams folder, and now our entire Dropbox folders (even folders we are a member of that are shared from other clients) is merged under theirs. It seems that they do not have access to our folder or our other shared folders. However, our Dropbox name has changed however to the name of the Shared Folder and it seems like we are under their account. Is there anyway to undo this combined sync, as we cannot have our business account merged to another. We just want to undo this action and restore our Dropbox to what it was prior to the invitation acceptance. Thank you759Views2likes2Comments
Audit file/folder access for large Business / Group Dropbox account
I've taken over management of an organisation with several large business dropbox accounts. I can see we have a large amount of data that has been shared with external parties, there has been no oversight of this and it would appear that there are some documents that are sensitive that have been shared that shouldn't have been. I really need to audit the entire tenant, and I will need to do so reasonably regularly going forward, but I can't seem to find the tools to do so. Other threads on this site suggest that our only option is to use the the command line API tool to script our own audit of Dropbox access? Can you confirm that this is the case? To be explicit, what I am looking for is to be able to list folders / folder paths and which groups or individual users are able to access that folder, or if some other sharing feature has been used to allow access to those files outside of the immediate users that have primary access to the dropbox tenant. Are there any tools that allow this for Dropbox?2.1KViews1like5Comments
Dropbox promoting team membership to random folder share recipients?
I recently shared a work folder with a mix of client and (their) sponsor staff. Soon after that I started receiving requests to join our business team. I've never seen this before so I'm assuming Dropbox decided it was in their business (profit) interest to push business account holders to fill up their team slots, so they need to ask for more? Now I suddenly have to deny all of these requests and explain that 'no, you don't need to join my team to have all the file access you need for this project.' And that 'team members are intended to be our business colleagues that need much broader file access, but Dropbox has just started promoting this to drive up their revenue.' It's extra work and it causes potential tension from client staff (or in this case sponsor staff too) that feel they are being denied access to something they need. Can I turn off this automated promotion by Dropbox? It's clearly a new thing and I'm guessing we can't shut it off, but it's obnoxious and inappropriate for the company to be driving us to admit team members that we don't want, just because we have a few open slots. Someone please help. Please stop this annoying business practice. Thanks, Joseph2.2KViews1like3CommentsFound out porn folders
Hello community, I need your help because I found out a link with naked and promising pictures from friends and people I know. I want to report this link but apparently it's a shared folder and it can be sent to anyone but we cannot make a legal procedure until we found out who the owner is. We need to block this information, the owner and his team. Please HELP.Solved15KViews1like1CommentPrivate folder - Turn off or remove (Dropbox business)
I use dropbox business for my company (I'm the admin). I want to know if' there's anyway to turn off private folders for users? The reason is that in our business there's no reason for a "private folder" ofc for various reasons. Simply sharing the "private folder" is also not a solution for 100 people as an example. So from a compliance/auditing/security point of view can this be done?Solved5.3KViews1like5Comments
