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I can imagine why it is so hard to roll back to your old account once you leave a team. It might be best for companies to advise their employees to create separ

by xoail 14y ago

I can imagine why it is so hard to roll back to your old account once you leave a team. It might be best for companies to advise their employees to create separate dropbox account before joining a team.

barredo 14y ago
It may be due to key encryption methods?
- xoail 14y ago
  Yes, plus there is no distinction between your personal account and team's account once they are merged.
- josh2600 14y ago
  Normally I'd agree with you, but considering Dropbox uses the same private key for all storage... I don't know. https://www.dropbox.com/help/28/en https://www.dropbox.com/help/28/en
Yoni1 14y ago
If it's hard it's due to bad design. It could've been possible.
- sltkr 14y ago
  But good design is hard too.
- mblake 14y ago
  Bad design most likely. Looking more carefully at the link in the initial email they sent you: 'confirm_migrate?'. This almost gives it away.
  - Yoni1 14y ago
    I didn't even notice that until now, and definitely not when I originally clicked the link :)
    - mblake 14y ago
      I feel for you. Internet hugs!
mnutt 14y ago
I originally signed up into our dropbox team account with my personal account. At some point dropbox emailed me and effectively said "hey, not a great idea to have your personal account merged with your team account." They had an interface for me to select which files were personal files and split those back out into my personal account. Overall it was a pretty smooth process, since at the time I had pretty much accepted that there was no going back.
- Yoni1 14y ago
  I have never received such an email. I totally did not see it coming when my account was deleted.