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Creating a shared file system with user-specific object-level access, which plan is good?
Dear all, I want to create a synchronized file system across two users working on different platforms. I need to control users' access to folders and files, while preserving the team's folder struct...
The Dropbox desktop application can only affect content existing in the Dropbox folder itself, so you would be able to control that structure on any Dropbox team plan, and files would sync normally. Business and Business Plus are the two plans that are useful depending on your requirements.
However, if you're planning on also having the Dropbox folder itself be located in the same location on each machine (for instance, C:\Dropbox), in order to inherit local file paths on each machine (perhaps for a specific file or app) then you wouldn't be able to manage this as an admin.
You'd need to manually make these changes yourself on those machines, and regardless, the users themselves would still be able to move the Dropbox folder to another location on their computer.
You can possibly use AnchorPoint in combination with dropbox to define permission at a macro level. That is what I'm setting up right now 🙂
Dear Lunre,
Thank you for sharing your solution. I would be very interested if you can detail your approach. Indeed, I have already heard about AnchorPoint before, but I never digged into this tool.
