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Rams
Explorer | Level 4
7 years ago

Personal Folders in Dropbox Business

I'm looking at Dropbox Business and have a few questions about personal folders. 1. Can users covered by my Dropbox Business account create personal folders within the Dropbox Business structure or ...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    7 years ago
    Hi there, I can help answer these questions for you:
     
    1. Users can create as many personal (aka private) folders as they wish.
    2. The folders remain private to the user unless they actively choose to share them with someone, or if they accidentally create the folder in an existing shared folder.
    3. If Dropbox Business subscription is on the Advanced or Enterprise plans, then the team admin can sign-in as a user to immediately view their account as they would view it on the site. This will allow the admin to see any files or folders that the user created, or shared folders they are a member of.
    4. An easier way to phrase this is ‘would users like to use their work account to store personal files and folders, which the team admin controls and could potential access or delete their account entirely?’ Most likely the answer is no, since the team admin can prevent them from ever accessing their files again. A paired personal account allows users the freedom of having their own account away from the team, and the knowledge that the team admin cannot access their personal account at all, as well as having a work account sync as normal.
    Hope this info helps clarify matters!
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Jay
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Hi there, I can help answer these questions for you:
 
  1. Users can create as many personal (aka private) folders as they wish.
  2. The folders remain private to the user unless they actively choose to share them with someone, or if they accidentally create the folder in an existing shared folder.
  3. If Dropbox Business subscription is on the Advanced or Enterprise plans, then the team admin can sign-in as a user to immediately view their account as they would view it on the site. This will allow the admin to see any files or folders that the user created, or shared folders they are a member of.
  4. An easier way to phrase this is ‘would users like to use their work account to store personal files and folders, which the team admin controls and could potential access or delete their account entirely?’ Most likely the answer is no, since the team admin can prevent them from ever accessing their files again. A paired personal account allows users the freedom of having their own account away from the team, and the knowledge that the team admin cannot access their personal account at all, as well as having a work account sync as normal.
Hope this info helps clarify matters!
Rams's avatar
Rams
Explorer | Level 4
7 years ago

Thanks--very helpful!

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