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Riccardo-89
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7 months ago

How to use Dropbox to work in team

Hello everyone, I’m struggling to understand how to use Dropbox for team‑wide collaboration. My main issue: when I share a folder with people outside my company who are on the free Dropbox plan, tha...
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Walter
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7 months ago

Hey Riccardo-89 - thanks for using Dropbox and welcome to our Community!

In this case, you can either opt in for a Dropbox team account or, otherwise, you'd need to use file requests for them to upload to your account without impacting their own quota and shared links for them to view the content you'd like to share with them.

I hope this helps!

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