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MakeItBetter
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9 months ago

Folder re-naming

User Story   I was shared a folder with a very generic name by an external party. This folder name is non-intuitive and also will potentially conflict with existing folders and / or new folders i...
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Mark
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9 months ago

Hi MakeItBetter 

Dropbox already does this 🙂

 

Any user in a Shared Folder can rename or move the folder without it impacting other users - you just cannot move in to an already shared folder. 

 

Note that when you do this Dropbox will pop up lots of messages saying 'access to X lost, xxx deleted, xxx restored etc.' just ignore these and let it finish and all will be good 🙂

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