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mr22
Explorer | Level 3
7 years ago

Add non team member to team folder

we have a consultant who helps us remotely, we wish to add them to one of our Dropbox Team Folders, yet since they already have a business account (their own) I don't want to send an invite and be pa...
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  • Lusil's avatar
    Lusil
    7 years ago
    Hey, mr22! 
     
    I understand if this wasn’t the ideal response you were looking for. I can forward your comments to the dev team for future review and, in the mean time, if you’d like to contact our Support team, please feel free to do so. 
     
    If you have any other questions or any update on this, don’t hesitate to get back to me. Have a wonderful day ahead! :upside_down:
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Lusil
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Hey, mr22!
 
Initially, please note that all content inside your team folder is automatically shared with the entire team. However, since you mention that you want to share content in your team folder with collaborators outside of your team, you can share it by: 
  1. Sign in to dropbox.com with your work account.
  2. Click your team folder.
  3. Locate the folder you want to share.
  4. Choose Share.
  5. Type the email or name of the person you'd like to invite into the textbox.
    • Names in blue are members of your team.
    • Names in yellow are not members of your team.
  6. Choose Share.
The people you invite must accept the invitation before they can access the content inside the folder.
 
People who can only access folders inside the team folder, and not team folder themselves:
  • Receive the folder like a shared folder.
  • Don't have access to the team folder or any other containing folders.
  • Don't have visibility into the folder structure.
You can find this info and more details in this article. 
 
Let me know if you have any other questions! :grin:
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mr22
Explorer | Level 3
7 years ago

So I can't share the whole team folder to this person... they already have a business account.. just it's not paid for under our account

  • Lusil's avatar
    Lusil
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    7 years ago
    You can share the content of the team folder to users outside of your team, just not the team folder itself. If you’re having trouble sharing it, it may be due to the sharing settings applied by the team admin. 
     
    Hope this helped! :nerd:
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      mr22
      Explorer | Level 3
      7 years ago

      the content in the folder is being deleted and added to regularly, it feels like a work around to be forced to re-share each file/folder as it's created, sounds like something I need to log with tech support?

      • ReplayGuitar's avatar
        ReplayGuitar
        New member | Level 2
        6 years ago

        Mr. 22:  I have the same issue --we hired an outside accounting firm and want to give them access to the entire team folder, but it seems that is not currently possible on DropBox.

        Here's a work-around that I am considering:

        1. Add one subfolder under the main team folder, perhaps called "team-ext"
        2. Move EVERYTHING in the team folder into that new team-ext folder
        3. Share the team-ext folder with the accounting firm

        The only downside is that everyone in the team will have to navigate one more level down in the folder structure, but I don't think this would be a big deal.

        Anyone see a problem with this?

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