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SaintPierre_436
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15 days ago
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Adding more options for folder permissions aside from "Can edit" and "Can view"

Similarly to how local network drives allow for specific permissions, I wish Dropbox had more granular permissions other than Can View & Can Edit. For instance, a user in our company has been accidentally moving, duplicating, and in very rare instances, been deleting files and folders from other user's projects. Thankfully folder activity exists so we can see who was responsible and when it happened, but I would still love to be able to restrict users from doing certain actions in specific folders. Especially for those files you don't want deleted or moved.

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  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
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    15 days ago

    Hey SaintPierre_436 - thanks for sharing your thoughts on this with us.

    I'm not sure if this would do the trick, but are you familiar with the file locking feature? 

    If not, would you like to be able to grant edit access to the content of a folder (so that they can edit the files inside the folder), but you'd like to be able to prevent them from moving or deleting those files? 

    Let me know more and we'll take it from there. 

    • SaintPierre_436's avatar
      SaintPierre_436
      New member | Level 1
      11 days ago

      Hi Walter,

      Unfortunately, file locking will not suffice for this situation. The end user who is causing this disturbance is one of the company's higher-ups and I have no intention of blocking him access to edits or modifications within a file.

      I would love for the ability to apply custom permissions based on the use case. For this instance, I would want to apply a "Cannot move" & "Cannot Delete" to the specified user when inside of the target folder. That way they are still fully capable of editing, renaming, or adding files, but cannot move/delete what already exists.


  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
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    10 days ago
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    I see, thanks for the additional information. 

    This idea is now open. 

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