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description: To protect your content in folders, assign access to specific user groups with permissions. Before you apply folder permissions, make sure that you’ve created user groups and organized your content in folders.
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# Limit Access with Folder Permissions

To protect your content in folders, assign access to specific user groups with permissions. Before you apply folder permissions, make sure that you’ve created user groups and organized your content in folders.

### Required Editions

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d27603e54 ">To apply folder permissions:</td>

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Note Don’t apply folder permissions to the Uncategorized folder. If a user doesn’t select a folder during asset creation, the asset is put in the Uncategorized folder. If users don’t have permission to access the Uncategorized folder, they no longer can access the asset.

Keep these considerations in mind when applying folder permissions.

- Admins can access all folders.
- Subfolders inherit permissions from the parent folder. For example, Folder 1 contains Folders A and B. Granting access to Folder 1 also grants access to Folders A and B. You can explicitly set permissions on subfolders if necessary.
- Permissions set on a subfolder override the inherited permissions from the parent folder. To give a subfolder its own permissions and the permissions of its parent folder, set both permissions on the subfolder.
- Folders remain public until you select groups with access.
- You can’t put prospects in folders, so you can’t use folder permissions with prospects.
- If you’re using the Salesforce connector, folder permissions on lists carry over to Salesforce if the lists are marked as CRM Visible. For example, a sales user doesn’t have access to Folder A, which contains Lists 1 and 2. When the user adds a prospect to a list from Salesforce, the user doesn’t see Lists 1 and 2.

1. Open the folders page.
    - In Account Engagement, select **Marketing** and then **Folders**.
    - In the Lightning app, select **Content** and then **Folders**.
2. Find the folder you want to limit access to.
3. Click the gear icon, and select **Permissions**.
4. Select which groups can access the folder’s contents.
5. Save when finished.

Folders with applied permissions have a lock icon next to the name.

#### See Also

- [Create a User Group for Round-Robin Assignments](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.pardot_users_create_group.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Use groups for round-robin lead assignment. When you assign a prospect to a group, the prospect is assigned to a group member, equally distributing leads.")