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Folders containing subfolders but without player permission content are visible.

I'm not sure if this is a bug, something overlooked or something intended. It's also a bit hard to explain, but I'll give it a shot. If you have a folder and you stick a handout or character in it without giving players permissions to view that handout or character, the folder itself remains invisible to the player. That makes sense. There's nothing in it the player can see, so they don't need to see the folder. Now if you have a folder and you create a subfolder in it, regardless of whether or not it contains handouts or characters without player permissions to view, players are able to see the root folder (not the subfolder or contents). Players essentially see an empty folder. This creates an awkward situation where I have a folder structure like so: -(Location) Random Encounters (1 per day) --(CR1) 1d4 Goblins ---[Goblin] (Does not have player permission to view) In this situation, the players cannot see the Goblin creature or the (CR1) 1d4 Goblins folder, but they CAN see the (Location) Random Encounters (1 per day) folder which, to their viewpoint, contains nothing but does give away the fact that this location contains random encounters and how often they are. Of course the simple solution would be to simple rename the folder so it doesn't give that information away (as I have done so in my game after learning this). Any way, I thought I'd bring this up since my preliminary search did not bring up any results and I could not find any reference to it in the Wiki.
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Stephen Koontz
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Keii, good catch. We appreciate the detailed explanation. This isn't intended and we'll fix it.