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Sender receives an email notification when and with who they share a folder with!
Whenever the owner shares a folder/ file in dropbox they should receive a delivery notification that the folder/ file has been shared with the receiver detailing the date/ time/ receiver details (name and account/ email), similar to the one a receiver gets from dropbox portal that a file/ folder has been shared by xxxx dropbox account. We all make mistakes or sometimes it could be some glitch in the devices, a folder is shared accidently and as you do not receive any notifications so such detail can easily be missed as the sender is oblivious of the activity/ mistake and it can go unnoticed. When the receiver accepts and joins the folder than its easy to check who has access but in cases where the receiver accepts and immediately removes themselves in that case its practically impossible to track if the shared folder was ever accessed by the receiver. This also can be deemed as a security concern, as the sender is completely oblivious of the shared folder status and there is no proof that the folder was actually shared with the receiver. The activity log and events page do reflect the sharing of the folder but do not provide details with who the folder/ file was shared. Hope this can be taken into consideration as can surely help track sharing of folders much better and secured. Thanks
Files don't sync correctly. What can I do?
I’ve been using Dropbox to store and sync important media files for my Sellvia store, but recently, some files aren’t syncing properly across my devices. I’ve tried restarting the app and checking my internet connection, but the issue persists. Has anyone experienced this? Any fixes you’d recommend?
I'm getting an error when trying to share a folder. What is happening?
Ho una cartella condivisa da diversi anni con altri 2 utenti, da qualche mese una delle 2 persone non accede più. Lo tolta ed ho cercato di reinserirla ma senza risultati. Mi da sempre errore che non posso aggiungere nessuno. Anche se lo condivido come link mi da lo stesso problema, posto una foto per farvi capire meglio . Grazie
After Paper “migrated”, my folders are a mess
Hi! So some time ago Dropbox “migrated” my paper docs and put everything into one huge pile. Moreover, I used a system of folders with my writing partner — we're working on a book together, and everything pertaining to that book was stored inside a “folder”, probably not physical because everything was in the cloud. Now weird things happen. If I try and search my book documents from my Dropbox account, I get nothing. If she sends me a link to one of those documents, yes I can see the document, and that it is shared with me, and that there's still a “book” folder. But if I want to find that folder on my Dropbox, I can't do that. And if I want to add a new Paper document there (like a new interview), there's no way to do that. It gets even weirder. She sent me her screenshots. When she makes a new document, there's an option under documents name that says “Add to folder”. Also, her address line in browser is paper.dropbox.com — but when I do that, that option says Paper Docs, when I click on it, it does nothing, and when I enter paper.dropbox.com it autoredirects me to dropbox.com/paper I'm stuck. We're both on latest macOs. Any ideas here?
Make members invisible to others
Hello, I noticed that when a members access to my folders via your website, he can see all the other members' name on the upper right corner. I can also double click on their icon and send a mail to anybody! I don't want any member to get access to the other members. So, please add a feature to disable viewing all other members.
Dropbox Paper completely disappeared from new UI
I've been using Dropbox Paper since it first came out. I just noticed now the UI of Dropbox paper has been updated. However, now when I go to the Paper home, none of my papers show up. None. The entire page is empty. I did noticed that I now have a "migrated paper" folder in the main Dropbox UI. I can open this folder and access my old papers. However, why wouldn't my old paper be listed in the Paper UI? Another thing that's completely missing is shared paper folders. My partner and I have a shared paper folder. The shared folder was created by him and shared with me. I cannot find any reference to this paper folder in my Dropbox UI. Not the new Paper UI, not the main Dropbox UI. I tried to search for documents in this shared folder, and they showed up in the search result. When I click on the shared doc, Dropbox takes me to the OLD Dropbox Paper UI. What? Makes no sense! My partner's account doesn't seem to have migrated to the new Paper UI yet. When he logs into Dropbox paper he still sees the old UI. Is this ever going to get fixed? That's just insane product behavior. I'm a product designer in the enterprise world. Even in the darkest corners of enterprise product, we would never allow behavior like this. That would be a release blocker. What's going on Dropbox?The whole sharing UI needs a revamp
Managing shared folders and permissions on dropbox is extremely painful and needs an urgent revamp. Sharing a folder is fine, but as soon as you have multiple shared folders which are shared with multiple people where not everyone has access to everything it becomes a nightmare to manage. There is no way to see which folders a "User" has access to so if you want to unshare all folders with a specific user the only way I have found is to go through each and every shared folder you have to check if that person is on the share list. If this could be done from one screen it would be acceptable but currently you have to drill down and it can take ages. I would like one screen where I can see all shares (as is the case now) but clicking on a folder shows all people that have access, on the same screen, with an easy way to manage. Select multiple and remove them all at once etc. At the same time, I would like to see the reverse so a list of people who have access to shared folders and in one click see what they have access to and manage that. What would also be nice is to permission groups, so instead of sharing multiple folders with a person I can just add them to a group that has access to those folders. And again, an easy and intuitive way of managing this.
