I have the following folder structure in Sharepoint 2007 Documents o Region1 Department A Joe's Reports Lisa's Reports Bob's Reports Department B Department C o Region2 o Region3 I have assigned permissions at the "Reports" level giving Joe Contribute rights to his folder, Lisa hers and so on. They do not have contribute or even read rights to the folders above them, but get assigned "limited access" permissions automatically. Up until recently this has worked fine, they would be able to traverse the folders only to get to their Reports folder. No they can no longer traverse the folder structure, but if they click on a link that brings them directly to their folder, they still can see their files. I don't know what broke or changed so that they can no longer traverse the folder structure, but need to figure out how to fix this. My organization is much larger than the example. Thank you in advance Stephen Hathaway

Hello, There are only two things you need to check if you are talking about these options in quick launch. Navigation settings and permission settings. And in case if If its a document library and folders within, the only affecting factor is "Permissions" Nothing else could affect what should and what should not display in document library other than permissions. You need to verify permissions on the individual folder level, see what all users/sharepoint groups/security groups are added.. and check if something has changed at somewhere on the top level. Hope this helps, Regards, Rohan --Please mark as "Answer" if the post resolve your issue--

This sounds like normal SharePoint behavior. If a user is only granted access to one folder within a library, then they only have permission to view that folder. Everything else is typically security trimmed out. It sounds like the permissions may have been a little more broad initially, which allowed them to traverse the folder structure previously but it is important to understand how permission inheritance works in SharePoint. If you want them to traverse the folder structure, then they need access to the "Region" and "Department" folders. Assuming the actual folders with content have unique permissions, then this will mean they can navigate the folders without having access to the documents.

They used to be able too access the region and department folders. When assigning full rights to the sub folders, sharepoint automatically assigns limited access to the above folders so that they can browse through the tree structure to the folder that they need and have access to. Thank you, Stephen Hathaway

They used to be able too access the region and department folders. When assigning full rights to the sub folders, sharepoint automatically assigns limited access to the above folders so that they can browse through the tree structure to the folder that they need and have access to. This has worked flawlessly in the past - something happened a few months ago to cause this to change I haven't been able to figure out what has changed or maybe it was an update. Any other ides? Steve