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?
@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".
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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We started to see the same thing this week, this is super annoying and is now breaking a use-case for us that has been working for years.
Not to pile on, but I am also experiencing this and it is very difficult to work around. Thank you for working on it and, please let us know when fixed.
That's great to hear, thanks Dropbox! The problem has just started happening to me too after years of using Dropbox happily. Very frustrating. I look forward to the update asap.
Finally, we have the answer to my question of "and what about the files littered in the team root directory?" answer: moved into "assorted content" team folder:
https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Delete-edit-and-organize/Files-deleted-missing-after-some-changes-made-to-my-team/td-p/766747
This seems to be a new (and extremely, insanely annoying) feature. How do you turn it off and turn it off permanently? I DO NOT want to "copy the files then go back and delete" because, say if I have 10 files in there, and I want to MOVE 5 - by copying 5 then going back and deleting the 5, I might end up deleting the wrong ones.
I WANT TO BE ABLE TO MOVE THE FILES LIKE I USED TO BE ABLE TO. Dropbox - turn off this feature now.
Hi @Angela1204j, sorry to hear about that!
I've merged your post under a relevant, similar thread. Feel free to take a look here, and the comments that have been shared from the rest of the Community members, and managers.
Your feedback regarding this has been very valuable and noted, and I will endeavor to make sure your voice is heard.
Keep an eye out for an update as Nada, our Community Manager mentioned here.
Thank you!
Where is the thread?
Hey @Angela1204j, you can find the thread by following this link.
Let us know if you have anything else to ask or add.
I'm very relieved (albeit sadly) to see so many people share their frustrations relating to this idiotic 'feature'. As if having to deal with this issue wasn't enough, it was extra infuriating having Dropbox support gaslight me first by suggesting that I was doing something wrong, and then that this was expected and desired behaviour, for my own benefit. 😠
My thread had been merged with this thread, and I have already read this thread, so I posted my thread in the hope that Dropbox will come to its senses and remove this insanely annoying feature. So has it been disabled? Because copying then deleting is asking for mistakes (such as deleting the wrong file) to happen.
As team admins, we honestly do. not. care. if "other team members" lose access to that data. For smaller organisations, there is the options of simply getting up from one's desk, walking over to the other person's desk, and asking. That "for the team" should be an OPT IN option for larger organsation, not some fixed, unchangeable default. TURN IT OFF NOW
It seems to be a recent update issue and the only thing that can probably be done is to overwhelm the Dropbox people into TURNING IT OFF NOW
As a workaround you can open two windows, copy from one, tab to the other, paste there, and if it worked, tab back to the original window and delete the files which should still be selected. In case you want to get work done while dropbox fiddles.
>> Gaslighting is actually a feature we've just launched, but has also always been part of the product, so this is the expected behaviour. Could you send a screen recording of the problem?
I - as admin of this thread - need to be able to like this response multiple times. Liking it only once is not enough.
Anytime soon?
This "feature" is infuriating. As an admin, I should be allowed to manage my folder tree as I see fit. This feature needs to be opt-out at the very least. DROPBOX REVERT THIS CHANGE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
@msakten wrote: 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?
I understand completely. This new feature is garbage, annoying af.
They have so much time in the world, so what have they done? Annoy members it is
Are there any updates on this @Walter @Megan @nada_dbx ?
Amen on this. We got a "We hear you and we will change it back" message, and now crickets. This is beyond annoying.
Hi @msakten and folks - we've just released this fix to web and mobile. You should be able to move files and folders out of a team folder and into your personal folder. Thank you once again for the feedback and hope that makes your user experience more seamless using Dropbox! The desktop update will be coming in the next couple weeks due to the differing release schedule.
EDIT: We were able to push the change on desktop in an earlier release and it is now available as well.
Let us know if there's any additional thoughts on this experience!
So, while composing a post, I accidentally pasted a link to a private dropbox folder. I deleted it immediately from the post, of course
I continued drafting the post and then posted it.
SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!!!! THE PRIVATE LINK WAS STILL IN THE POST AS A KIND OF "ATTACHMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!"
So I had to edit it again to become a complaint about that, to see if it made the link go away. Did it work? Yes, I think so.
NEEDLESS TO SAY, I AM VERY ANGRY.
(Yes, I used also quickly used the dropbox web UI to delete the public link)
Let's see what happens if I add a link and then delete it.
I had a google link here, and then deleted it.
And now for what I actually meant to post.
@nada_dbxI have found a lingering problem resulting from this change. There is no windows context menu option to "Copy Dropbox Link" for a top-level team directory like there is for its subdirectories. This is no doubt due to the different character of these two types of directories. However there's no good reason to leave it this way, because I can get the very same kind of link by viewing the top-level team directory on dropbox.com and clinking the link button. Therefore it seems like an oversight in the client.
I would also like to complain that the version number in the preferences isn't copyable. At risk of making a typographical error, allow me to transcribe it for you here: v203.4.4857S
UPDATE: these links are useless anyway because people have to request access. I guess that makes sense. I thought I was supposed to be the one person that finally figured out how to use this %(#*$? No, it's still just a complete surprise whenever I try to do anything. OK, time to deploy workaround: move EVERYTHING to a subdirectory of a top-level team directory which works in the sensible way.
The good news is, nobody would have been able to get access to my private directory through the accidentally-posted link because they would have to request the access with it (nothing tells you this when you create the link, but I guess it's supposed to be "obvious"?)
(I didn't update the last post because it would erase my beautiful "attached link" test)
MORE: when I rightclick a top-level team directory and pick "rename" it brings me to a different URL with "rename" in the querystring, which then auto-refreshes to the basic URL with no rename operation. At this point I'm not invited to rename it.
