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Moving a shared folder into a team folder
Though some people have asked similar questions, I do not see how best to solve this. I jave a business account. When people share folders with me they appear in(side) my personal folder within the...
Hey there acruzat, I hope you're well today!
You will only be able to move shared folders into team folders if the owner of the shared folder is a member on the team.
From what you've mentioned, it sounds like those outside of the team that share the folders with you are the owners of these folders. This means that you will only be able to see these within your personal member folder.
What I can suggest to allow you to move the folders within the project team folders would be to request those outside the team to transfer the ownership of the shared folder to one of the team members.
Otherwise, when you will share with people outside of your team, you can create the folder inside the project folder where it needs to be and then share this with those outside the team to add content into it.
Let me know if this helps!
Daphne
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHey there acruzat, I hope you're well today!
You will only be able to move shared folders into team folders if the owner of the shared folder is a member on the team.
From what you've mentioned, it sounds like those outside of the team that share the folders with you are the owners of these folders. This means that you will only be able to see these within your personal member folder.
What I can suggest to allow you to move the folders within the project team folders would be to request those outside the team to transfer the ownership of the shared folder to one of the team members.
Otherwise, when you will share with people outside of your team, you can create the folder inside the project folder where it needs to be and then share this with those outside the team to add content into it.
Let me know if this helps!
Still with the same issue. I understand this is a design problem in Dropbox. It makes Dropbox quite useless for consultants like me. My clients share folders with me and other lawyers/consultants so that we can all work on a project together. But all these shared folders end up in my personal space. I have no way to work on them with my team. Useless!!
This suggestion is ridiculous and most of the time not feasable, as acruzat explained in detail. So to summarize: With dropbox it is not possible for several different teams to work on the same project, sharing the data directly.
