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Looking for a way, as admin to a shared folder which contains sub-folders, to keep other team members from accidentally moving those sub-folders. Part of it is education: novices do not grasp that by moving a folder to their desktop (for whatever reason) they are moving it out of DB and visibility to the rest of the team. This has occurred a few times, and as the team grows, it would be better if admin could lock a folder's POSITION. Probably would be a benefit to keep the folders from being renamed, but that is less likely to happen. Users should still be able to freely work with and move files as needed within the locked-position folders. Maybe there is a way to do this that I'm not aware of. Third party folder manager (those I reviewed are focused on encrypting, password protecting and/or hiding folders)? Any advice would be appreciated.
- Kevin C.20New member | Level 1
Same problem. It's a huge issue for us. Or even a user who is just navigating within the folder structure and accidentally moves a major folder into another major folder. By the time they cut and paste the folder back to fix the problem (or reverse the event online), the change has started syncing across our user base and can take a lot of bandwidth/time to recover. This is exacerbated by the fact that a number of our users are in remote Africa with limited bandwidth.
I still need users with full editing rights, I just want to lock the position of major folders in our Dropbox root so they can't be moved.