You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Help! Dropbox has moved critical team folders inside my personal space
I restarted a mac today and as Dropbox was reopening, got a cryptic message from Dropbox saying 'Do you want to move two files/folders into the Team space?'. Not knowing what It was referring to, I clicked 'no'. -> It's now moved two critical top-level team company folders into my personal space • I tried to simply drag them back, but the root level is locked on OSX finder. • I considered using Terminal to move the folders back, but thought hacking Dropbox in any way (esp at root level) could cause unknown behaviour/data loss, and this is huge amounts of company data which isn't backed up another way (something we're working on). For now, I've quit Dropbox on this machine to stop it syncing. On other machines and on web the company folders remain in the correct place, for now. Q. How to undo whatever it did, on this mac, so I can resume using Dropbox without it doing this operation? TIA - Jon
Manage external participants access and links
Hello! I could really use better ability to view and manage external access to files and folders. Today it took hours to go through and verify that an external participant did not have access to files and folders. Even if I could search for an external participant's email (or partial email), and then review all the files and folders that had been shared with that person, it would have saved time and assisted me with the task of re-securing our files and folders.
Move files to the new Personal Folder (as Admin)
Following the update to the new Dropbox file system (Changes and updates to your team account - Dropbox Help), users now have their own "Personal Folder". Before this change (and as Dropbox did not have this feature), we had created an Employee Team folder with a subfolder for each employee, and they had sole access to this folder as their personal folder space. When the new file system was rolled out, users lost access to the old personal folder and needed to get access again by making a new selective sync. As the Admin, I would rather move the contents of the old subfolder into the new Personal Folder instead of asking 200+ users to again sync the old folder and cause potential confusion between these two setups. I would like to do this through the Admin console. However, I cannot locate where I can manage a user's Personal Folder or move content into that, from another folder in the team folders.