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Suzette C.'s avatar
Suzette C.
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago

Organizing Shared Folders

As a busy freelancer, I have different clients sharing folders with me all the time. This has gotten out of control for me. In DropBox, when a folder is shared with me, its dropped in my DropBox ro...
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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    2 years ago

    Hi Suzette C. 

     

    Yes you can! So I have a really originally named folder called "Shares" where I move everything to! You can also rename them to whatever you want without it impacting on anybody else which is really helpful as most of my shares had names like "Share for Mark" etc.!

     

    One word of warning on this though is when you do start moving Dropbox will tell you that you've left/deleted/closed shares etc. as you do it do not panic and ignore it. Give it time and it will start saying the opposite as they go to where you moved them before they work again 🙂

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Mark
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2 years ago

Hi Suzette C. 

 

Yes you can! So I have a really originally named folder called "Shares" where I move everything to! You can also rename them to whatever you want without it impacting on anybody else which is really helpful as most of my shares had names like "Share for Mark" etc.!

 

One word of warning on this though is when you do start moving Dropbox will tell you that you've left/deleted/closed shares etc. as you do it do not panic and ignore it. Give it time and it will start saying the opposite as they go to where you moved them before they work again 🙂

  • Suzette C.'s avatar
    Suzette C.
    Helpful | Level 5
    2 years ago

    THANK YOU so very much! I was so afraid to make any changes.

     

    As a person who likes everything in it's place, this is gold! I appreciate the time it took you to help and provide info. Have a great weekend!

     

    ~SS

    • klthompson's avatar
      klthompson
      New member | Level 2
      2 years ago

      I just had this exact same question! I moved a shared folder to where I  wanted it to be in my dropbox, and then had a slight panic attack on whether I broke this new clients dropbox. Happy to hear that it's ok to do this!

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