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anonymous
5 years ago
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Allow Users to Leave a Shared Dropbox Paper Document

Currently when a Dropbox Paper document is shared with you it's impossibe to remove yourself from it. Not only this, but all others that the document has been shared with can see your email address. This is a privacy leak.

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  • sani2's avatar
    sani2
    Explorer | Level 4
    5 years ago

    Instead of Archive, one should simply be able to leave the document. A plain and simple, yet very useful feature it's missing. 

     

    Thank you 

    • Clair H.'s avatar
      Clair H.
      Helpful | Level 5
      5 years ago

      Right now, it's impossible and that's not acceptable. 

    • sani2's avatar
      sani2
      Explorer | Level 4
      5 years ago

      I totally agree. It's a functionality that one would seemingly expect to come out of the box with a public version. But alas. 

  • anonymous's avatar
    anonymous
    5 years ago

    This relates to a long running thread on the community here.

  • miezpiez's avatar
    miezpiez
    Explorer | Level 4
    4 years ago

    This would be a great feature to unclutter your Dropbox Paper list of documents.

  • Tim42c's avatar
    Tim42c
    Helpful | Level 6
    4 years ago

    I accidentally moved a Paper doc into a folder. Didn't realize it was "shared" to me. Realizing my mistake, I tried to move it to another private folder, but was warned "26 people will gain access [to my private folder]".  Whoa. Not an option, so I deleted the paper doc.

     

    Next, tried to remove myself from the shared folder to avoid confusion...and... and... got to the ~3 year old thread asking for this feature. Seriously? What possible explanation could exist for this feature not existing already, or not even considered in all that time? 

  • Elle B.'s avatar
    Elle B.
    Helpful | Level 6
    4 years ago

    This is a mind-bogglingly fundamental feature to just... not support???

    Agreed. Come on, Dropbox.

  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
    Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
    3 years ago
    Status changed:
    Gathering Support
    to
    Not for right now

    Thank you for your idea, while we can’t take every idea forward we do regularly re-review and will update you if anything changes!

  • Clair H.'s avatar
    Clair H.
    Helpful | Level 5
    3 years ago

    Not for right now? Took you over a year to arrive at this status and you’re going to blow it off? This is not okay. I dropped using Paper over this. At this point, you can just dump the tool.