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Well, this would have been great to have before making me convert my personal account, i.e. with my non-work email address, to an account managed by my employer

by geuis 13y ago

Well, this would have been great to have before making me convert my personal account, i.e. with my non-work email address, to an account managed by my employer.

sgrytoyr 13y ago
My entire office is in the same boat, so I tried to figure out whether it’ll be possible to convert back to a personal account before being re-added to a business account (of the new kind), but I couldn’t find anything. Do you know for a fact that this won’t be possible?
- roel_v 13y ago
  It's possible with intervention from Dropbox staff. When I first set up the business version, I didn't quite understand what was going to happen (and it is all very non-intuitive, I found) and long story short I basically lost my personal account. I freaked out but support restored it and I used another email address for my business account. Then I used dropbox portable to juggle two dropboxes on one machine, but that was a pain in the ass, so I just used some computers for personal and others for business.
jasonlotito 13y ago
Why would you do this, though? It's your personal account. When I had to connect to a business account, I set up a second account.
- geuis 13y ago
  The problem is that we all use Dropbox to share files around the office. So if someone is at home, they still need access, and you can only be signed in with one account at a time. The other benefit is that we get a HUGE amount of storage under a business account. All in all, the whole process needs some revision on their part.
  - jasonlotito 13y ago
    You can run 2 dropbox instances at the same time, both hooked into a different account. This isn't the same way I did it, but here is an article on it. http://lifehacker.com/5971204/run-multiple-dropbox-accounts-on-one-computer http://lifehacker.com/5971204/run-multiple-dropbox-accounts-...

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Well, this would have been great to have before making me convert my personal account, i.e. with my non-work email address, to an account managed by my employer

by geuis 13y ago

Well, this would have been great to have before making me convert my personal account, i.e. with my non-work email address, to an account managed by my employer.

sgrytoyr 13y ago
My entire office is in the same boat, so I tried to figure out whether it’ll be possible to convert back to a personal account before being re-added to a business account (of the new kind), but I couldn’t find anything. Do you know for a fact that this won’t be possible?
- roel_v 13y ago
  It's possible with intervention from Dropbox staff. When I first set up the business version, I didn't quite understand what was going to happen (and it is all very non-intuitive, I found) and long story short I basically lost my personal account. I freaked out but support restored it and I used another email address for my business account. Then I used dropbox portable to juggle two dropboxes on one machine, but that was a pain in the ass, so I just used some computers for personal and others for business.
jasonlotito 13y ago
Why would you do this, though? It's your personal account. When I had to connect to a business account, I set up a second account.
- geuis 13y ago
  The problem is that we all use Dropbox to share files around the office. So if someone is at home, they still need access, and you can only be signed in with one account at a time. The other benefit is that we get a HUGE amount of storage under a business account. All in all, the whole process needs some revision on their part.
  - jasonlotito 13y ago
    You can run 2 dropbox instances at the same time, both hooked into a different account. This isn't the same way I did it, but here is an article on it. http://lifehacker.com/5971204/run-multiple-dropbox-accounts-on-one-computer http://lifehacker.com/5971204/run-multiple-dropbox-accounts-...