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Another issue to consider is multiple accounts. For example I have 3 Google accounts (1 personal, 2 for work). I also have two Dropbox accounts (1 personal, 1

Another issue to consider is multiple accounts. For example I have 3 Google accounts (1 personal, 2 for work). I also have two Dropbox accounts (1 personal, 1 work). You are essentially in for a world of hurt because all the services want to believe you only have one account, or at the very least a one to one mapping between their accounts and user accounts on your systems. Thankfully I was able to get dropbox running with two different dropbox accounts but with one user account on my systems. This was because dropbox has command line tools (for Linux only) so you can fake them out with different $HOME settings. But on Android etc I am SOL.

comex 14y ago
Why have two accounts if the work account is not more secure than the personal account (since both accounts are on your computers?) If you want some devices to only have the work account, you could still use a shared folder to sync between the work account and the personal account rather than actually using two clients.
- rogerbinns 14y ago
  I keep my personal content (eg photos, music, backups of my personal systems) in my personal dropbox. My work dropbox contains software builds, presentations, customer stuff etc. Both are paid accounts. I work from home and hence use the same system for work and home activities. What I want is to be able to access both sets of content on many of my machines. For example I can read my work and home email on multiple devices. But dropbox for Android only allows for one account, as does dropbox for Windows and Mac. Shared folders are a no go. First of all I don't want to mix personal and work stuff. Secondly dropbox penalises you. For example if two users each separately pay dropbox for a 100GB account and then user 1 shares 25GB of content with user 2, dropbox will subtract 25GB from user 2's allowance. ie what you pay for is the total amount of data you can access, not the amount of unique data.
  - rdl 14y ago
    Couldn't you create multiple user accounts on Mac OSX and then leave one dropbox account logged in in each account, and use local permissions to access files in one account from the other? You could probably do the same with Windows, although I'm not sure how permissions would work.
    - rogerbinns 14y ago
      Having to have an entire extra user session logged in, just to keep dropbox running is way overkill. I did briefly experiment on Linux having two user accounts with different home directories but the same user id (numeric) but other bits of the system really didn't like that. In any event my original point is that this sort of setup will increasingly happen, none of the existing products handle it well, and it is a factor to consider when choosing what products to use.
Gustomaximus 14y ago
I have a similar issue so use different browsers for different accounts as my work around. So at any one time I will have Opera, Chrome, FF and Opera Next open.

comex 14y ago

Why have two accounts if the work account is not more secure than the personal account (since both accounts are on your computers?) If you want some devices to only have the work account, you could still use a shared folder to sync between the work account and the personal account rather than actually using two clients.

rogerbinns 14y ago
I keep my personal content (eg photos, music, backups of my personal systems) in my personal dropbox. My work dropbox contains software builds, presentations, customer stuff etc. Both are paid accounts. I work from home and hence use the same system for work and home activities. What I want is to be able to access both sets of content on many of my machines. For example I can read my work and home email on multiple devices. But dropbox for Android only allows for one account, as does dropbox for Windows and Mac. Shared folders are a no go. First of all I don't want to mix personal and work stuff. Secondly dropbox penalises you. For example if two users each separately pay dropbox for a 100GB account and then user 1 shares 25GB of content with user 2, dropbox will subtract 25GB from user 2's allowance. ie what you pay for is the total amount of data you can access, not the amount of unique data.
- rdl 14y ago
  Couldn't you create multiple user accounts on Mac OSX and then leave one dropbox account logged in in each account, and use local permissions to access files in one account from the other? You could probably do the same with Windows, although I'm not sure how permissions would work.
  - rogerbinns 14y ago
    Having to have an entire extra user session logged in, just to keep dropbox running is way overkill. I did briefly experiment on Linux having two user accounts with different home directories but the same user id (numeric) but other bits of the system really didn't like that. In any event my original point is that this sort of setup will increasingly happen, none of the existing products handle it well, and it is a factor to consider when choosing what products to use.

Gustomaximus 14y ago

I have a similar issue so use different browsers for different accounts as my work around. So at any one time I will have Opera, Chrome, FF and Opera Next open.