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.
As an admin, I want to be able to easily see what folders a specific user belongs to. I'd love to be a be able to go to the "Members" page, click on a user, and then see a list of all the folders they have access to. If I need to partially reduce a specific users folder access, I would currently have to click "Share" next to each folder and look through who the members were. And even then, if they belong to a folder I don't, I won't know they are on it.
I'd also like to be able to change their permission and uninvite them to those folders from that same view. So, once I've opened the "Members" page, clicked on the user, and am looking at the folders they belong to, I'd want to be able to make edits from there.
I share my various folders and files with different people. I want to remove one person ("X") from all the folders and files that are shared with X.
Is there any menu I can go to to simply "Unshare all folders and files with X"? Or is my only option to go through every folder and file to check who it's shared with and remove X if it's shared with X?
Thanks!
- Mark
Super User II
You need to do it on a per folder basis I'm afraid. There isnt a way to remove one person from everything in one go.- Oh man, ok that's gonna be a lot of work. Hopefully Dropbox can build this feature in down the line.
Many thanks for your help on this, much appreciated!
I need this information, as well. Have you fixed things yet, so we can do this? It's necessary in a work environment when someone leaves for another job. I'll be spending hours deleting this one person from all our folders.
Please, dropbox, develop this feature that is truly a necessity.
Using dropbox.com in your account, go to the folder with the members, click on the members shown on the right. A box will pop-up showing the members and their permissions. There is a drop-down menu for each in which you can change to can edit, can view, make owner, or remove. It is one by one for each folder and member.
I'd like to have an answer on this matter as well.
Except that on top of that, I would like to be able to see to which groups a user belong to.
So I would go on the "members" tab and click on a member name to see to which groups he belongs.
Oh, and in this same vein, I'd like to be able to easily see every folder that is being shared with someone outside my organization and then be able to bulk select those folders and users and unshare them.
All admins to create a report that show who has access to what folders include folder which that casn not see\ have access too.
WHY hasn't Dropbox added this feature that I have been asking for for YEARS, as have others.
We have a LOT of folders shared with lots of different people when someone leaves our team I have to open every frickin' folder to see if it is shared with that person. We ALL ***really*** need the ability to provide an email address and search for all the folders in our repository that are shared with the person. Then, having a "Remove all shares" function/button would be really ... HELPFUL.THIS IS NEEDED! It's a security issue for anyone that uses dropbox for business.
This would be such a life saver if it's possible with a non-member who is sharing a folder. To see a list of users outside the team and the folders they have access to. The be able to remove access to them in one click instead of going through all the folders.
Wonder if there is a solution for this already?
Ross_SDropbox Staff
Status changed:InvestigatingtoInvestigatingWe hear you!
Looking into this.
Please add 2 Reports or Lists for Shares and Members
1. Which member(s) is each Folder Shared with.
2. Which Folders have been shared with a Specific member.
I guarantee you that the entire Dropbox community would absolutely LOVE this feature and YOU for adding it! ;)
Best regards,
Jacob
Hello,
Dropbox Business is a tool that has 2 main functions:
- manage files / folders- share this data with other people
I find it hard to understand that the 2nd function is hardly developed. Indeed, if I create files and give rights to users, after a while I must be able to know who has access to what in my files. And with organizations that evolve, there is a need even more often to redefine rights. Today, it is impossible for me to know who accesses which folder in a simple way. At the very least, you should be able to output a list of all the files with each of the users who have access to them, in order to be able to manage this in Excel. And then of course, to be able to manage all these rights in the tool as is requested in the other posts.
We are happy with Dropbox, but for me, this access rights problem is blocking our use / evolution. We are therefore hesitant to change the tool, and I know a lot of colleagues who have not taken Dropbox because of that.
Please expand at least the simple function of being able to list folders / rights, and then other more advanced functions. I would very much like to be able to stay with you than to go elsewhere.
Thank you and good day.
