Make groupfolders independent from existing folders owned by admin or ppl lose data!

[jospoortvliet]

There's a weird overlap with existing folders. Take this scenario:

• Go to the Files app and create a folder named superawesometest
• Put a few files in it.
• Go to the Group Folders admin and create a folder named superawesometest
• Add the Admin group to the access rights for superawesometest
• Go back to Files and observe the new Group Folder has overwritten the existing superawesometest and it is empty. Where are my files?!!?!
• Go to the Group Folders admin and remove Admin group access to the folder superawesometest
• Go back to Files and observe the new Group Folder has disappeared and the existing superawesometest is back with its original content!
• Note that this overwriting of existing folders with (empty) Group Folders also happens with users - if you create a group folder with the same name as a folder one of your users has, they will lose access to that folder and all its content.

I think Group Folders should act like shares - if somebody shares a folder with the same name as an existing one with you, it should show up besides the existing one, not overwrite it.

[jospoortvliet]

• This bug is also in master (1.10), just tested
• deleting the Group Folder does NOT delete the users' folder and its data (thankfully). It merely obscures it while the Group Folder exists.
• did not find any other problems with Group Folders 1.10 - nice improvements ;-)

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[jospoortvliet]

Ah, now I understand what you reported ;-)

May I suggest to try and have a more extensive description - maybe @icewind1991 understood the problem but I didn't, at least... Now I'm sorry for creating a duplicate. Let me just make mine a comment on yours.