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.
Status:
Gathering Support
Make it easier to remove external collaborators on a Dropbox team
in our account, we currently have 89 external collaborators that I would like to remove. Each collaborator has on average 40 files shared with them and it currently takes four clicks to remove each shared file so 89 x 40 x 4 = 14,240 clicks. I don't have that kind of time or patience. Right now, I guess I just leave them and hope they don't access the files any longer. In the future, we just will not use the exterior collaborator feature - seems completely unworkable.
This feature would be very helpful to me to maintain security on our team.
- simonDBX
Dropbox Product Manager
Hey Steve H.22 - thanks for sharing this feedback! I'd love to learn more. Are you the admin of the team? From what page and platform are you looking to manage these settings? (e.g. the Members page within the Admin console on web)
This is a critically important functionality, and it is bizarre to discover it does not exist.
As the account administrator, I can see the list of my 65 external collaborators, each having access to folders or files or whatever. It should be trivially easy to add checkboxes next to that list, and globally remove access. The removal could give them the ability to re-request access. But to have a system that effectively leaves access open because it is insanely burdensome to close it is crazy.
This is the best argument I've seen for simply closing my Dropbox account and moving to a different service.
