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ryanrud
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

Notification when copying files to my external drive

Dear Community, I'm in a group and share a few files with my team but I'm not the admin. I would like to copy some files from Dropbox desktop to my exernal drive. Do the admin get notified when I...
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    Mark
    4 years ago

    If you just copy and paste them then no they wont be informed. 

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Ash9352
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago
I want to copy some files from shared dropbox to my external driver without notifying the business admin?
Is there any solution?
If I synced the file first, from online only to offline, would admin be notified?

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