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People with the highest access on Sharepoint having issues viewing some folders
Hello,
We have three company directors and they all have the same full control permissions to be able to access/edit anything on Sharepoint.
Sometimes when one of the directors creates a folder it doesn't allow the other directors to access it even though they all have the same highest access permissions. The folders that do this seem to be the ones that are missing the lock icon and those folders can not be seen by other directors.
Any insight and help would be greatly appreciated.
Hello KSuccar
do you use unique permissions on differnt levels in your library?
Have you checked the advanced permissions on the folders and the higher level?
Best, Dave
Hi Dave, Thanks for getting back to me.
We do use unique permissions for all employees with the directors all having the same most senior permission (site owners) which should give them access to basically everything I think, including folders created by other Directors (unless I am mistaken). I think I know what you mean by levels and those three directors all have Full control as their permission level.
Thanks
Hello KSuccar
i mean with levels site, library, folder or document. It's possible to set the permissions on each level, it doesn't have to mean that everyone has access everywhere, if folders or documents are shared, the permissions can be broken and you have unique permissions.
With unique permissions it's meaning broken permission on a level, this is not best practice and can lead to a lack of transparency.
Best, Dave
Hi Dave,
Not that we are aware of, the only permissions that were set up initially were for the directors to have equal/full access to everything and then when we need to allow access to folders for staff we then share it to allow access to them. We havn't added any unique permission on any levels in the library that we are aware of. Would you know of the steps to check this?
