It is absolutely bonkers how difficult it is to do this. I'm a PhD and I can't decipher those instructions. Isn't this Dropbox's core function? When and WHY did this become so hard?
\nPerhaps if you explained the issue you're having someone might be able to provide assistance.
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And remember, if you're trying to share outside of your Business team and you're unable to do so, the team admin may have that ability disabled for the team. If you're the team admin, you can modify these settings.
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That's because the simple act of sharing a folder doesn't add the person as a paid team member. The person would need to be invited as a team member for that to happen.
\nIf you're not able to invite an external user to a shared folder that's in a Team account, then the team admin might have that ability disabled in the team's sharing settings.
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