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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.
Hello Dropbox Team. There is no easy way to say this - You NEED to have a setting immediately which PREVENTS DELETION BY OTHER TEAM MEMBERS. If a company is using dropbox and all the company files are there, can i ask why there is no setting to prevent staff members from editing, deleting, downloading? There is a company known as ShareFile which has user controls preventing this sort of thing - IF THE ADMIN WISHES TO SET IT. Please do this as a matter of urgency - EVERYONE WANTS IT
Very happy to see this post. This is still one of the major setbacks for our company as well.
