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Hiding unshared Team folders from non-member Team members
I'm setting up a new Team Folder. Previously, users only saw the folders that they had access to. Now, all folders are listed. Those that they don't have permission to see are showing up with a Fo...
Hi WVU90SAM, thanks for posting here today!
I'm afraid that the same behavior remains now. The Team folder would be visible, it would just show as a locked folder. What you could do, is what you already mentioned: move the content under your personal folder.
Your feedback regarding this has been very valuable and I will endeavor to make sure your voice is heard.
If you need anything else, let me know!
nada_dbx
Dropbox Product Manager
Dropbox Product ManagerHi, Dropbox product team member here. We're working on an update of the Team Space experience and I hear your feedback. We want to make it so that Team Folders are invisible to the team members they are not shared with. Part of that work is understanding how much to expose when members have access somewhere down the tree. For example, if there is a Team Folder structure like Accounting/Payroll/2023/Market Research, and you give a team member access directly to the Market Research folder. How would you say their Dropbox view should look:
1. With the full path of the folder exposed: Accounting/Payroll/2023/Market Research so that they understand where the folder exists and how to navigate to it
2. With only /Market Research visible so they have no exposure to which folder it lives in.
Would love to hear your thoughts!
I'm also interested in the functionality of hiding folders that a user doesn't have access to. Many top-level folders aren't appropriate for our entire team. From a purely organizational perspective, nesting top-level files within another (personal) file is counter-intuitive and counter-productive. We recently switched to Dropbox for our rapidly growing team, and this issue is a significant one that I hope gets resolved quickly.
I'm happy to see that the Dropbox team is actively looking into addressing the issue. For the above, I prefer option 1 to show a user the subfolder origin.
Hi wondering if there has been any further progress on this.
Our structure has enabled us to create multiple teams, and different teams having access to the folders necessary, however we really need people not to see the folders they dont have access for. I need to reduce clutter for certain teams as well as keep information confidential
- nada_dbx
Hi I'd like to provide an update here - We've moved forward with option 1 that I mentioned before, providing the parent folder structure visibility to enable team members to see the full path of only folders they have access to, and hiding any folders they do not have access to. All new team plans being created will have this update by default. And we are rolling out the update to existing teams over the next few months. The team admins will get an email ahead of the update so they know when they will get it. Again, thank you for the feedback!
- This is great news! Thank you dropbox team for this. I really hope we are among the first in line for the rollout. 😉
