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GazfromOz
5 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Email address associated with my DropBox account
Hi All, I have changed my email address on the Dropbox website which has been verified, however the email address on the Dropbox desktop app is the old email address, how do I update it?
- 5 years ago
Hi again Здравко,
After rebooting my device and restarting the Dropbox app twice the correct email address is now showing.
Thank you very much for your help.
Здравко
5 years agoLegendary | Level 20
Hm... 🤔 In such a case the email seen on your application should update automatically. Seems like some caching issue. Did you try quit Dropbox application and run it anew. Let's hope the cache content (including the email) will gets updated. If the issue isn't resolved still, you can try unlink your application ( Preferences -> Account tab -> Unlink... ) and link it back.
Hopefully this will help.
GazfromOz
5 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Hi again Здравко,
Yes I did quit the Dropbox application and restarted with no change to the old email address. What I might do is restart the computer and check again.
I considered to unlink my application as you suggested ( Preferences -> Account tab -> Unlink... ) and link it back, however the selection to do so says "Unlink these accounts in Settings on web" and I was not 100% confident to action.
- Здравко5 years agoLegendary | Level 20
GazfromOz wrote:
...I considered to unlink my application as you suggested ( Preferences -> Account tab -> Unlink... ) and link it back, however the selection to do so says "Unlink these accounts in Settings on web" and I was not 100% confident to action.
Actually "unlink" means break the authorization between local application instance and the Dropbox account. You can do this in 2 ways. Either push the "Unlink..." button in your local application settings or remove your device' line out from devices list associated to your account. Both are equivalent (same final result). Select whatever is more convenient to you.
- GazfromOz5 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Hi again Здравко,
After rebooting my device and restarting the Dropbox app twice the correct email address is now showing.
Thank you very much for your help.
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