Best practice: Structured Folder Sharing

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First of all: Thanks for the great work here. I’m a longtime nextcloud user and super happy with it!

I am a passionate Nextcloud user and a passionate photographer. I would like to know how you would solve the following problem:
At the moment I archive my photos in Nextcloud and have a simple folder structure.

MyPhotos/year/YYYY-MM-DD_SomeEvent
like
MyPhotos/2021/2021-02-03_AuntLisasBirthday
MyPhotos/2021/2021-02_HolidaysSpain
etc.

I would like to share some of these photo subfolders with other Nextcloud groups and users, keeping the following in mind:

  • I do not want to copy any data
  • I would like to let the others benefit from my structure. I.e. I don’t want to share single folders, but maybe build a similar structure on the other user’s side (e.g. in groupfolders or something similar).

At the moment I see only two possibilities:

  • Share the folders individually and let the users sort the whole thing in a yearly structure.
  • Copy the photo folders again separately.

So my question is: How would you share these folders and keep some of the basic structure for the other users and groups with the given example?

Thank you!!

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It sounds like what you want to do is share a tree of folders but only share the files within some of them. This is not possible to my knowledge. A folder’s contents are shared when the folder is shared.