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Joaodobramos
6 months agoExplorer | Level 4
Cannot move a folder from the public/shared space to my personal space although I am the Admin
I have a dropbox account shared with a team and I am the admin. I also have the dorpbox app in my laptop where I manage the local and online files. In 2024 suddenly I was unable to create folder in t...
- 6 months ago
Since the teams space and personal folders are separate, it's no longer possible to move the folders by accident, which would result in a large deletion from the other members' perspective.
To 'move' a folder, you'd need to do as you said, create a folder in your personal folders, and then move or copy the files across. I'd recommend testing this with a single file at first to ensure that it does copy over.
Joaodobramos
Explorer | Level 4
Dear Jay, thank you very much for your reply.
I used to be able to do all these actions before, both online and in my laptop. Has anything changed? So I will have to create a folder in my personal folder and then move the files from the public folder to mine, correct?
Jay
6 months agoDropbox Staff
Since the teams space and personal folders are separate, it's no longer possible to move the folders by accident, which would result in a large deletion from the other members' perspective.
To 'move' a folder, you'd need to do as you said, create a folder in your personal folders, and then move or copy the files across. I'd recommend testing this with a single file at first to ensure that it does copy over.
- PFSE6 months agoHelpful | Level 6
Except now this is creating duplicates and we cannot MOVE out of a team folder, so files are stuck in one folder now
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