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Celeste M
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5 years ago
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Sharing a parent-level folder with a user who has access to a child-level folder

Hi Our company uses Dropbox for Business. We have one parent folder for "Company Accounts". Within this, there are sub-folders from "A" to "Z". Within each of these, there are specific accoun...
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  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
    5 years ago

    Hi Celeste M; welcome to our Community!

     

    As long as your team's admin allows external sharing or top level editing (this depends on the user you're sharing the folder with, i.e. a member of the team or an external one) I don't see any reason why this wouldn't work Celeste. 

     

    Why don't you give it a go?

     

    If you stumble upon an error while doing so, please provide me with a screenshot so I can have a visual to assist further.

     

    Thanks! 

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Walter
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5 years ago

Hi Celeste M; welcome to our Community!

 

As long as your team's admin allows external sharing or top level editing (this depends on the user you're sharing the folder with, i.e. a member of the team or an external one) I don't see any reason why this wouldn't work Celeste. 

 

Why don't you give it a go?

 

If you stumble upon an error while doing so, please provide me with a screenshot so I can have a visual to assist further.

 

Thanks! 

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Celeste M
New member | Level 2
5 years ago

Thanks Walter

 

Yes, we are sharing with a team member, not externally.

Thanks for the advice. Another team member of mine has done the sharing successfully, so it has definitely worked.

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