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How to unshare a file/folder in shared folder?
Hi, I have shared a project folder, but some files/folders in that folder shouldn´t be shared with others. How to ushare these files in shared folder? If I go to Share-File settings-Unshare file-Sa...
Bubo wrote:
I have shared a project folder, but some files/folders in that folder shouldn´t be shared with others. How to ushare these files in shared folder?
You can't unshare individual files or subfolders within a shared folder. If you share a folder, the people invited to the folder have access to everything within the folder. You can set their access to Edit or View-only for the entire share, but there are no other controls for unsharing a portion of a shared folder.
Rich
Super User II
Super User II
Bubo wrote:
I have shared a project folder, but some files/folders in that folder shouldn´t be shared with others. How to ushare these files in shared folder?
You can't unshare individual files or subfolders within a shared folder. If you share a folder, the people invited to the folder have access to everything within the folder. You can set their access to Edit or View-only for the entire share, but there are no other controls for unsharing a portion of a shared folder.
Thank you for answer. There is another question, why is not possible to unshare individual files in shared folder?:-) Now I must change all folder structure. :-(
- Rich
Bubo wrote:
... why is not possible to unshare individual files in shared folder?It wasn't designed to work that way. When a folder is shared, the recipients have access to the folder and everything in it. If you need to share a folder but exclude spcific items within it, you need to move those items out of the folder.
It does not make sense. I want to share a whole project with my client, but not the financial information. So either the client gets a bunch of unrelated shared folders and it looks like a big mess, or we have to make separate folders outside the shared folders.
In other words this is a huge feature request.
