You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
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Can we disable the team member folder?
PLEASE allow Admins of Business accounts to disable the auto-generated personal folder that is in each user's Business Dropbox.
For my business, as well as many other businesses, having a personal ...
Our team is also very frustrated by this update. We don't want private folders for each person on our team account--we want our team to be saving their files to shared locations that can be accessed by their colleagues. One of the main reasons we purchased the Business subscription was to improve administrative oversight and control over the files/folders and how they are shared. We need to be able to manage file access on behalf of staff members--sometimes folks don't share folders with the right people or at all, and it's very important for making sure the right content is shared with the right people when there is staff turnover. Our organization pays for the subscription and the storage space, so it seems ridiculous that we are no longer able to have ANY control or oversight into how employees are using it. We already have ongoing headaches with members creating shared folders instead of team folders, which makes it much harder to update access when there are staffing changes. These new personal folders are only going to worsen the existing problems. If we wanted members to have personal storage, we would have purchased personal subscriptions.
We are seriously evaluating alternative tools for file syncing/sharing. It's ridiculous to require us to upgrade our subscription (again) just to have control over the file storage we are paying for. It's supposed to be a productivity tool, but these days I spend way too much time trying to fix problems with Dropbox to justify the expense.
