Fine-Grain Folder permissions : invisible

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I have a similar question about “no-access” but within Departments.
As soon as I add a user to a department, he gets full access to all Libraries within this department.
Is there a way to block access to certain libraries for certain users in a Department?

What I did as a workaround: add only the admin to the Department and then use old-school sharing of individual Libraries to users. But I guess this is not the purpose of Departments…

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No such way. The purpose of department library is to be shared to the whole department.

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Is there any news regarding this topic?
I am looking for a solution to a similar issue:

We are using a library called “Events” to store and sync media files related to specific events.
Some computers which are synchronizing the “Events” library should not have access to all events, but only the ones which are explicitly shared with their restricted user.

As I understand, there are two options currently available:

  1. Share the whole library read-only and grant write permissions for the specific events. This would however also give access to all the other event data, which should not be accessible on the restricted computers.
  2. Share the individual sub-folders. However this will not automatically sync new folders on the restricted computers and cause a flat folder hierarchy in the restricted user account.

Do you have any suggestion for my issue?

Thanks in advance
Michael

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You can share the whole library read-only and grant write permissions for the specific events. Then use the drive client to only sync files that used.

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But this is what needs to be avoided: the restricted computers should only have access to the folders which they should sync.
Synchronisation of new folders should happen automatically then, without the need of configuring each computer individually.

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You can create an account for that computer, and only share folders to this account that this computer need to access.

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I agree that this should be a standard way of working. In my line of work, it’s very important to keep the file structure of folders, so it would be a great option to be able to share a library with a group, but then be able to control the visibility to individual folders, not only read-write access.

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