Dropbox, Inc.

Aaron Staley

Thomas Kleinpeter

Nils Milton Bunger

Tony Xu

Sam Jau

Akos Albert

Alex Sydell

Conor Woods

Sara Lin

Igor Kofman

Vinod Valloppillil

Jacob Hurwitz

Helen Lu

Sunny Rochiramani

Eric Sprauve

Francesco Paduano

Katherine R Rudolph

Matteus Pan

Aditi Jain

Alicia Chen

Ashish Warty

John Adams

Aisha Ferrazares

Rob Baesman

Siyao Xu

Joseph Hui

Kathryn Siegel

Lennart Jansson

Zach Johnston

Ben Newhouse

Tsahi Glik

Rohan Vora

Yosrie Mansour

Howard Lee

Shuoqing Ding

Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for managing content item collections. For example, in embodiment, a client device may receive first user input selecting a content item collection. The client device may generate a graphical user interface for presenting the content item collection. The content item collection may include one or more tiles. Each tile may correspond to a content item embedded into the content item collection and stored by a content management system. The client device may present the content item collection including the one or more tiles. The client device may present, within each of the one or more tiles, an image representing the corresponding content item.

System and method of adding content items to a content management system

The present technology pertains to a organization directory hosted by a synchronized content management system. The corporate directory can provide access to user accounts for all members of the organization to all content items in the organization directory on the respective file systems of the members' client devices. Members can reach any content item at the same path as other members relative to the organization directory root on their respective client device. In some embodiments novel access permissions are granted to maintain path consistency.

Forced mount points / duplicate mounts

Synchronized organization directory with team member folders

Traversal rights

Managing content item collections

Prevention of loss of unsynchronized content

The present technology pertains to an organization directory hosted by a synchronized content management system. The corporate directory can provide access to user accounts for all members of the organization to all content items in the organization directory on the respective file systems of the members' client devices. Members can reach any content item at the same path as other members relative to the organization directory root on their respective client device. In some embodiments novel access permissions are granted to maintain path consistency.

Cursor with last observed access state

Transition to an organization directory

File system authentication

Administrator console for an organization directory

A method and apparatus for inheritance-based propagation is provided. The method comprises receiving a request from a client computer to update an access permission associated with a specific namespace in a nested namespace structure for a user, the specific namespace being associated with a group of users, wherein the nested namespace structure includes one or more child namespaces of the specific namespace; causing updating of the access permission associated with the specific namespace for the user; identifying the specific namespace as the current namespace; and performing an iterative process having the following steps until a termination criterion is satisfied. The iterative process comprises for each of one or more child namespaces nested directly within the current namespace, causing execution of a job for updating a child access permission associated with the child namespace for the user, the execution of at least one of one or more jobs corresponding to the one or more child namespaces of the current namespace comprising automatically re-executing the at least one of the one or more jobs in response to unsuccessful execution of the at least one of the one or more jobs while maintaining at least eventual consistency of the one or more child namespaces with respect to updates. The iterative process further comprises for each of the one or more child namespaces, identifying the child namespace as the current namespace and restarting the iterative process.

Techniques for eventually consistent inheritance propagation for nested content item namespaces

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Aaron Staley