Access-control: documentation for general folder uid restrictions (#47567)

* add caveats for general folder

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@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ Fine-grained access control is available for the following capabilities:
- [Provision Grafana]({{< relref "../../administration/provisioning/_index.md" >}})
- [Manage reports]({{< relref "../reporting.md" >}})
- [View server information]({{< relref "../../administration/view-server/_index.md" >}})
- [Manage teams]({{< relref "../../administration/manage-users-and-permissions/manage-teams/_index.md" >}})
- [Manage dashboards and folders]({{< relref "../../dashboards/_index.md" >}})
- [Manage annotations]({{< relref "../../visualizations/annotations.md" >}})
To learn about specific endpoints where you can use fine-grained access control, refer to [Permissions]({{< relref "./permissions.md" >}}) and to the relevant [API]({{< relref "../../http_api/_index.md" >}}) documentation.
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### Verify if enabled
You can verify if fine-grained access control is enabled or not by sending an HTTP request to the [Check endpoint]({{< relref "../../http_api/access_control.md#check-if-enabled" >}}).
## Caveats
If you have created a folder with unique identifier (uid) set to "general", you will not be able to manage its permissions with fine-grained access control.
Any [folder permissions]({{< relref "../../administration/manage-users-and-permissions/manage-dashboard-permissions/_index.md" >}}) set for this folder will be disregarded when fine-grained access control is enabled.