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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.
I found a routine on the net that make the computer ask if you want to move a folder:
http://broken-e.com/dragdropconfirm
I have installed this on all my computers since my comment in 2018. I now get asked 2-3 times a month if I really want to move a folder on my laptop where I use the finger controlled mouse. May not sound much but considering the trouble it can be to find a moved folder its been well worth while.
I have asked all staff to install it but it is one of those things you loose track of. Anyway we have not lost a file in this way fro sometime and it has stopped the calls to move away from dropbox. Something like draganddropconfirm as a standard part of something like dropbox (or a server) seems like a must if you dont want to suddenly find one of your folders/files missing.
- Walter
Dropbox Staff
Status changed:NewtoGathering SupportHi all!
This idea is going to need a bit more support before we can share your suggestion with the team.
I’ve updated the status to encourage more users to back you up!
Is there a way to prevent users from moving a specific folder, or lock a folder in its current position? The user should still be able to edit its contents though.
Or, prevent a user from being able to delete a specific folder while still being able to edit its contents.
- Fiona
Thank you for sharing more reasons for this feature request to be upvoted marauder28! :chart_with_upwards_trend:
We appreciate your time.
I completely understand that this accidental syncing was not pleasant and didn't help the workflow. Please keep in mind that a movement of a folder in Dropbox (mobile, desktop and the web) takes a few steps to be completed. Selection of the folder, selection of the action, selection of the location and confirmation to move. This is to make it harder for the movements to be accidental.
Realistically, a cloud service must sync to have the changes updated live. Syncing speeds are related to several factors and large amounts of files can take some time to sync. Syncing will always be a process when using cloud services but the feature requested could be an extra safety guard for such incidents.
We are doing our best to improve and your feedback will always be reviewed.
Thank you for choosing to work with Dropbox and took the time to post about this!
Hello and thank you for the clarifications. We are enterprise users who use Team spaces extensively to collaborate. So, a feature like this is very, very, very important.
We recently had an incident where a user inadvertantly moved a large folder containing lots of large subfolders on his dropbox mobile app at the end of the day and left on vacation.
Other users still working started to see files and folders go missing. Some users saw partial syncs of the move in another folder and started moving things around to try and fix it. It became a mess and we needed to get the Restoration team involved. This took an entire weekend and a few days to get resolved.
And as you mentioned to MissT5, it takes time for the system to sync the changes. That's a huge waste of time, which is why this feature is so badly needed.
- Fiona
Hello marauder28!
Thanks for joining our Community!
I understand you would like to have additional settings to prevent the movement of folders from members without removing their permissions to edit. This option is not available at the time. But it is a very good feature request and I will report it! :dividers:
I would like to point out that moving shared folders only reflects for the user moving them when sharing is not in a team folder. The other members of the folder would still see the shared folder in the original location. This gives everyone the ability to organise their content as they wish.
Moving folders in a Team folder, allows the members of the team folder to see the movement, if the destination location of the directory is also inside the Team space.
Note: Only the Admin can move a folder, completely out of a Team space.
Finally, as described by MissT5, when someone moves a folder, the system takes time to transfer all the files to the new filepath you chose. If you move it back or elsewhere the system would again take time to sync the changes. :arrows_counterclockwise:
Again thank you for the feature request! :nerd:
I found this article that might help some.
I haven't had a chance to apply it in a real life situation yet so don't know if it works or not.
Same issue here. Any solutions? Even temporary solutions would be appreciated - our top-level folders can have >50000 files, even with online-only it's a big issue to re-sync everyone's file when a folder is moved accidentally.
We have a similar issue in our organisation, with users often unknowingly dragging folders into other folders which causes huge frustration and wasted time finding the moved folders and fixing this up. It would be hugely beneficial for a specific folder tree structure to be locked down with admin rights. This issue has now resulted in us looking at alternate platforms as it is now seen as being a business risk.
Sanchez, any way of finding out if there is any further movement on this issue? We just had a user accidently move a top level folder into another and now a couple of hundred thousands files are re-syncing.
Does anyone have any answers to this ?
WE have the same problem a shared team fodler with sub folders that keep getting dragged and dropped into different locations.
Is there a solution to this question?
- Sanchez
