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TheLegend
New member | Level 2
6 months ago

Shared folder viewed in users personal folder, not in the root folder

I'm admin of our Dropbox account. I have a folder in the root called Accounting When I invite a new user access to this folder and they navigate to it on the their desktop it is in their personal...
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Jay
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Hi TheLegend, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

 

Was the user invited to the folder itself, or the Accounting folder?

 

This will help me to assist further!

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TheLegend
New member | Level 2
6 months ago

The Accounting folder from the admin console. 

I clicked the Share to Dropbox and entered the users name and the User got an invite 

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    Jay
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    6 months ago

    Thanks for the info, as this is related to account specific information, I'd recommend contacting the support team directly for them to assist further. 

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    nada_dbx
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    6 months ago

    Hi one follow up question - is the user a member of your Dropbox team?

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