Every team has a shared library: a folder tree plus spaces that all joined members can see and manage. It works just like your personal folder tree, only shared. It is listed on the team's page in the Explorer, below the team's card.
What everyone can do
A team space belongs to the whole team, not just to the person who made it. Any joined member can:
- create a new space or folder in the library,
- open and edit every space,
- rename, duplicate, and delete a space,
- re-folder a space within the team, or move it to another team they belong to.
Deleting a team space moves it to the team's Trash, which every joined member can see in the Trash (the More group of the Explorer sidebar, or Open Trash in Settings) and restore from. See Trash.
Joined membership grants edit access to every space in the library. There are no per-folder or per-member permissions inside a team: everyone who has joined can manage everything. People with a pending, un-accepted invite get nothing until they accept.
Any member can share a team space: create, extend and revoke its passes and set its share password, as its owner (the person who created it, or who moved it in) can. Members themselves open the space directly from the library and don't need a link. A team space also can't be shared to the Community, since it belongs to the team.
How spaces are placed
A space lives in exactly one place: your personal tree, or one team's library. Within a team, a space sits either in a folder or at the team's root, listed beside its folders.
- Moving a space into a team files it in that team's library and removes it from your personal lists. Only the space's owner can move a personal space into a team.
- Moving a space out of a team into your own personal library transfers ownership to you, the mover, since personal folders are tied to their owner. (If the owner is the one moving it out, ownership stays with them.)
- Moving a space to another team whose members don't include its owner also transfers ownership to you, so the space never stays owned by someone outside the team that holds it.
- Re-foldering within the team can be done by any joined member.
Change Folder opens a browser of every place you can file a space: pick a space first (My Work, or one of your teams), then browse into the folder you want, so you can file a space anywhere you have access from one place. A space already in a folder opens the picker where it is, that folder selected. On a team's own page the picker opens on that team, with My Work and your other teams one step back (‹ Back to Choose a Space), so a team space can always be moved back to your personal tree.
When someone leaves
When a member leaves the team or is removed, the spaces and folders they created in the library stay with the team: ownership passes to a remaining member (the longest-standing Admin). If they have one of the team's spaces open at the time, they lose access straight away.
When a team is deleted
Deleting a team never destroys anyone's work. Its spaces are re-homed to the root of their owners' My Work, and the team's folders are dropped. Each member keeps the spaces they own.
A space in a team library shows a Team badge in the editor instead of "Private", since every joined member can open it. If you also share that space with a link, it reads Shared as normal: share links and team membership are separate, independent grants.
Use New Space from within a team folder so the fresh space lands in the folder you are browsing rather than at the root of your My Work.
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