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Lost ownership of folder

Hi:

I have several folders in my dropbox (I'm the owner of some and can edit others). Now I (accidentally) moved a folder for which I am the owner into a folder for which I only have edit privileges. When I moved the folder back to its original place, I discovered that I am no longer the owner (I can still edit the folder, but the owner is not the owner of the folder into which I accidentally moved the folder).

Any advice on how to make me the owner again?

Thanks!

Steve

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Rich

@enfinityTX wrote:
Any advice on how to make me the owner again?

Have the new owner transfer ownership back to you.

https://help.dropbox.com/files-folders/share/owner

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Rich

@enfinityTX wrote:
Any advice on how to make me the owner again?

Have the new owner transfer ownership back to you.

https://help.dropbox.com/files-folders/share/owner

Juf_Smit

Hi! I am experiencing the same problem and it took me by quite surprise. I'm a teacher and created this folder in 2020 and have been using it since then to share notes with my learners. Today I went on to change the shared membership, as most of my learners I shared it with are done with school and are not using it anymore. Somehow (don't know if I did something wrong by accident) I'm now only able to edit this folder and someone else is now the owner. I have emailed this person with the hope that they will change the ownership. But what if that does not happen? Is there by any chance a history available that you can check that I am in fact the original owner (and should be the only one) and maybe identify how this change in ownership happened so that it does not happen again?

Rich

@Juf_Smit wrote:
I have emailed this person with the hope that they will change the ownership. But what if that does not happen?

You would need to create a new folder, move or copy the content from the old folder to the new folder, then re-share it with the intended recipients. There's no way for Dropbox to revert the ownership back to you.