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DatNguyen22
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Mar 02, 2020

SharePoint How to Prevent Folders from Moving in Document Library?

I have a hierarchy of folders available for all members of the department in a SharePoint Document Library. There are 6 divisions of the department that have their own folder. In these divisional fol...
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Andrew Hodges
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Mar 03, 2020

Hi DatNguyen22 

 

If you want to maintain all users having edit permissions for files in those folders then you cannot stop them moving folders. 

 

Only way to do it would be to make folders read only to those users. Maintaining files under those folders if they need to have edit rights is not practical.