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MazzaGazza
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3 years ago
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Does deleting an account enable the username to be "reused" on an existing dropbox account?

I have two accounts. Both accounts currently have no data in them. The original one has 8.75GB of storage but uses a hotmail email as the username. The secondary account has 2GB of storage which us...
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    Mark
    3 years ago

    Hi MazzaGazza 

     

    Yes you can do that 🙂

     

    Although it may take a few days to release the email depending upon account type 🙂

     

    Another option is to use a third email to swap in to the account with the iCloud one and then you can use it immediately to switch Hotmail 

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Mark
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3 years ago

Hi MazzaGazza 

 

Yes you can do that 🙂

 

Although it may take a few days to release the email depending upon account type 🙂

 

Another option is to use a third email to swap in to the account with the iCloud one and then you can use it immediately to switch Hotmail 

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