What do the different access roles mean?

What do the different access roles mean?

Viewer: a member who can only view the files in the folder

Contributor: a member who can view and add files

Editor: a member who can add files and edit descriptions and titles

Curator: a member who can add files, edit descriptions and titles, rearrange and delete folders, create folders, and delete files

Manager: a member who can add files, edit descriptions and titles, rearrange and delete folders, create folders, delete files, publish, share, and add members to an archive (only available as an archive member, and not a share role)

Owner: a member that has full ownership rights to all the contents of the folder (there can multiple owners of a shared file or folder, but only one owner of an archive)


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