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Need recommendation for advising team on local syncing best practices
We will be doing a very large reorganization of our Dropbox - making new structures in folders, moving files, and archiving unneeded stuff. In terms of offering the team guidance on re-syncing only needed items and disposing of the "old", is it as simple as requesting they trash their entire local folders and starting over? Our biggest fear is loss of work not saved past their own desktop.
- Walter
Dropbox Staff
Hey Rebecca16, thanks for using Dropbox and posting on our Community!
Can you please clarify if you're all part of the same Dropbox for Business teams account or if you have individual accounts?
If you'll be making changes to your folder structure, there's no need for the team members to delete any of their folders, they'll just need to let the Dropbox desktop app sync the changes you made till it's up to date.
I hope this helps a tad and please keep us posted!
Walter We are all currently individual accounts but need to switch to a business teams account and absorb everyone. Whether we do this before or after the reorg is unclear at this time. Would it make a difference?
In general, is it possible to wipe a desktop app of all content before resyncing with the "new" folders? We would want to avoid people accessing old archived versions of things on their local space.
- Hannah
Hey Rebecca16, sorry to jump in here.
Allow me to advise, that if you're planning on upgrading to a Dropbox Business team, re-organizing folders at this time will be somewhat redundant.
I'm only saying that, because with the upgrade, the folder structure of everyone on the team will change anyway, to reflect the structure of a Business account.
Upon upgrading, a new folder will appear in each user's Dropbox folder, the member folder, named after each member.
The space outside this member folder will be the 'team space'.
How the team space is organized, will be up to the team admin.
You can read more about the team space here and how to manage it as an admin here.
I hope this helps!
