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Is there any way to prevent our colleagues from deleting team files?
There are multiple people that use our company's dropbox account. Ocassionaly a folder and all of it's contents accidentally get moved and slows our computers down extremley bad until the sync is co...
ManypplUse wrote:
There are multiple people that use our company's dropbox account.
Is this a single account being used on all their computers, a Dropbox Business account with separate licenses for each user, or separate Personal accounts for each person with each having access to a shared folder?
If it's a single account being used for everyone, then no, there's no way for Dropbox to prevent them from moving or deleting files.
If you're using a Dropbox Business account or if each user has their own account and you're using a shared folder, then you can assign view-only permissions to a shared folder. That would prevent moves and deletions, but it would also prevent editing, uploading and other changes.
The better solution is to train your people. This is a problem that exists not only in Dropbox, but any shared environment. I have users contacting me often about missing files or folders, and it's nearly always caused by an accidental drag and drop by someone else. I find that a few minutes of training with those users greatly reduces the number of instances.
Recently one "family member" deleted files in "Family Room" folder from her laptop. She was not the adm / manager, but ALL of those files were deleted from the cloud and everywhere! There should be a way of the manager setting specific rights for each of the family mmembers. For instance: let them upload files to family folder, but NOT deleting them. Only the manager should be able to delete files, in my case here. This would be VERY important.
