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pacergh's avatar
pacergh
Helpful | Level 6

The issue is this—the third party app developer does not support DropBox for business team folders at this time (and never really did).

 

However, one could let it sync and create it's App folder, then temporarily rename it, followed by creating a new Team Folder by the same App folder name with the proper permissions, then move the contents of the App's renamed folder into the newly-created Team folder with the App's folder name.

 

Voila!  Team folder synced by the App.

 

Except, that doesn't work with the new structure.

 

Also, your moving everything to the cloud resulted in my Operating System's meta databases for searching for file names and file contents using it's file systems built-in search mechanisms is now all broken.

 

So, also, thanks for that!!!

 

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onformative
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Well i leave a message here as well because we have been using dropbox for 12 years now. 
For a while we have been thinking about moving all our projects somehwer else, like nextcloud or google drive but simply didnt because dropbox was still the best option. Now with this really useless change that questions everything and means we have to resync and then also update all folder pathes in our projects anyway makes us question if this isnt the right time to finally move to another cloud service. 

I still hope for DB to make this change optional, which would make us stayl, if there is no way to avoid it, then this is probably the right moment to switch to another service for good. 


  • Daave's avatar
    Daave
    Explorer | Level 4
    3 years ago

    The same thing happened to us this morning. I am the team admin, and as far as I can see there has been no notification. 

    Apart from nearly having a heart attack when I (didn't see) my folders in the new arrangement the two really big issues are:

    • All of our files are now offline and this takes time to download again = waste of time = waste of money

    • Our fonts stopped working via RightFont and had to troubleshoot that to get it working again.

     

    Also wondering if now is the time to reconsider which cloud provider I use

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