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Team members receiving emails inviting them to edit the folders I uploaded
Morning All
I have uploaded folders this morning and everyone within the Dropbox group have had an email from myself (via Dropbox) inviting them to edit said folder.
This is the first tim...
Hi everyone! I'm the Product Manager for this feature. Thank you all for the feedback! We are planning to update this so the default checkbox is OFF. When you (or team members) create a new team folder, you'll have to check the box if you want to notify other members of the shared folder you have created a new folder
Our engineering team is in the middle of this update so this should be rolled out in the next week or 2. Thank you again everyone for your feedback and patience!
Jay
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffAre the people who are receiving the email part of the invited members to the shared folder?
Yes, it appears so I just confirmed with a file that was shared. There are 107 members its being shared with and 106 of them were notified via email with the exception of the person who shared it. You can imagine in a big organization if items are shared or new items created how much unnecessary email it generates.
