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"files stay here for the team" prevents me from moving files from team to personal folder
I - a TEAM ADMIN - cannot move files or folders from a team folder, to my personal (i.e. ADMIN) folder. I get an incredibly annoying message "files stay here for the team". How do I get around this?
Ok this is absolutely unacceptable and I'm furious Jay please tell me this idiotic bug which is being presented as a "feature" will be addressed or I am cancelling my business account immediately. I just spent the whole day working offline - which involved moving files from team folders to my personal folder (because they were no longer needed in the team folder). Once my internet came back, dropbox MOVED THOSE FILES BACK TO THE TEAM FOLDERS WHILE I WAS RENDERING and completely messed up my renders and project. This is absolutely idiotic that DROPBOX OVERRIDES MY ACTIONS WITHOUT WARNING OR CONSULTING ME.
The original "killer app" of dropbox is that you could do whatever you wanted in explorer and dropbox would magically do the right thing, optimally, to sync it. I mention this for the benefit of newer dropbox engineers and project managers who seem to have forgotten that by engineering a brand new bug that is directly antithetical to the original mission. I'm sure there's a contingent over there that would love to jettison the filesystem integration finally so it's easier for them to manage our file-managing. You are hereby on notice: do. not.
To their credit, they did a good job on selective sync and the "online only" feature, both of which were very helpful for adding value to the core product. Selective sync was actually a workaround for dropbox 32bit process crashing when it created too much work for itself, but the "online only" is such a magically delicious, ingeniously simple, and massively superior solution, that I like to imagine it only happened because they somehow traced them down to all their own private islands and "got the old engineering gang back together for one last mission".
Now back to your regularly scheduled desktop client programming. Today's episode "bold blue bar prompting me to try free signatures".
mgambrell wrote:To their credit, they did a good job on selective sync and the "online only" feature, both of which were very helpful for adding value to the core product. Selective sync was actually a workaround for dropbox 32bit process crashing when it created too much work for itself, but the "online only" is such a magically delicious, ingeniously simple, and massively superior solution, that I like to imagine it only happened because they somehow traced them down to all their own private islands and "got the old engineering gang back together for one last mission".
Yep I agree
Now back to your regularly scheduled desktop client programming. Today's episode "bold blue bar prompting me to try free signatures".
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