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Hello, I am a Dropbox business admin that shares a lot of links with people outside of my organization. I'm not sure when it happened but as some point the default for sharing switched from "View...
Nancy this has always been only about folders. You can’t even make an edit link for files as far as I can tell, and how would anyone edit a single file?
So this is about folders links only. And it still doesn’t behave as it should, the app defaults to Edit Link.
How to edit a single file? How about a word document and it is edited (inside). Just happened to me
I suspect if a single file is inside a read only folder, you can edit locally but not change (save back to) the file in that folder. That should fail. (If it doesn’t that’s a bug.)
You would have to “ Save as…” to a new location to save your changes, but can’t put that new file back in that folder either. That is the whole idea of a protected folder. Items inside are read only
Sorry, I have to add more context: I meant a file that is editable (example: a link directly to the file). I shared a file with a link and it was by standard editable - and somebody more or less did a big mess inside the document.
Therefore I find it very questionable that the standard settings are "edit" and not "read only".
