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bluemonk482
Explorer | Level 3
8 months ago

How to disable downloads for people who are invited to view

Hi all, I am a Dropbox Enterprise user. I want to invite my colleagues to a sensitive file, and I want to set up a password to the file and disable downloads for the file. But it seems I can only a...
  • Rich's avatar
    8 months ago

    bluemonk482 wrote:

    But it seems I can only add password and disable downloads when I share the link to file with my colleagues. If I invite them, there is no way to disable downloading. Is this correct?


    That's correct. Shared Links have password and download controls, but if you explicitly share a file with someone directly, they'll be able to download it.

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