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Personal account to Business account - All files gone
This will be a long post as I've never experienced any thing like this:
1.) I have had my personal Dropbox account for so many years and been paying the PRO-subscription for couple of years. It...
Nancy
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHi from me as well, fannafreyr!
First off, please keep in mind that this is a public forum and you can’t post any form of personal info, as it goes against our Community Guidelines.
As per your admin’s email, is it possible that it’s about your Business account being removed from the team the first time, and being converted to a personal one instead?
From the rest of the things you mentioned (your personal account having 0 files, and looking like new), I understand that your team admin deleted your personal Dropbox account (instead of converting it to a personal one again), and you have now created a brand new one in its place, and re-upgraded it.
In any case, what you can do is to share a folder from your Business account with your personal Dropbox, and add all of your personal files within that folder. After that, please go to your personal Dropbox account, accept the shared folder, and move these files to any other location you want.
You can then delete the shared folder you created from your Business account.
Hope that helps resolve the issue!
Thanks Nancy for taking the time to respond to me. I was on a family vacation so I couldn't reach back until now. I'm still ''in this mess'' with my Dropbox account but I feel a lot 'safer' now because I managed to download ALL of my personal files to a offline-hard drive. So now I'm not worried about losing any data since I spent 2 days downloading everything (2.3TB) from Dropbox to my hard-drive.
So now I really would like to apply your solution to my situation. Like I said my personal Dropbox account that was accidentally moved and merged with my company's Dropbox has around 2.3TB of data. When I share the folder from my Business account with my personal Dropbox.. Don't I need to re-download all the files back again so my 'new' Dropbox recognises that it has downloaded those files and has it in its system? I want to have all my Dropbox on a hard-drive where I can always access the files (not cloud syncing) so don't I have to download all the files back again? If that's the case is there any way I can do a 'trick' because I already have all those files offline on a hard drive, the same hard drive I wan't to use as my Dropbox hard-drive.
So this is what the plan looks like me but I still don't get it quite:
1.) On my Business account I have ALL my files in a folder called ''Fannar Freyr''.
2.) I need to share that folder with my Personal account. How do I do that? When I right click the folder I don't get any options to share that folder. Where do I share it and how?
As you can see Dropbox doesn't give me any chance of sharing that folder with a another person. So I'm stuck here.
So let's say get a way to share the folder with my personal account, then what?
Can you take me step by step what to do then?
I assume it would go like:
3.) Accept that share-folder invitation and click ''add to my Dropbox'
But what happens then? I would be forced then to re-download 2TB from my Hard Drive-A back to Hard Drive-A because I have the same hard drive selected as the place for my business folder and personal folder. That seems like a weird solution.
How can I say to my personal Dropbox account hat I own access to all the files in my business account, then point my personal account onto the folder where all the files are (in my business account folder) and tell it ''Hey there are all the data, read them and confirm and when you're done you will see that we don't have to download anything''
- Jay
Hi fannafreyr, you can't share the entire personal folder with your name, but I just want to clarify something.
Are you able to see both your personal and your work Dropbox folders on your machine under separate sections? A screenshot of this for me to confirm would be great.
Hi Jay
I don't really understand your question. Here are some screenshots:
As you can see I'm signed into the business account with my work email and in the Dropbox drop-menu I can also sign into my 'new' personal account (switch between accounts)
On my Mac I can also see two Dropbox folders, Amenic ehf (Business dropbox from my work) and Dropbox personal (my new personal account).
I hope you are understanding what I mean with my questions. I have only one external hard-drive for my Dropbox (12TB) and now both my business Dropbox that took over my old personal Dropbox account is there with a folder and my newly created account with no data in it. How can I move all the data (2TB) from my agressive business account that took over my personal account onto my new personal account WITHOUT having to re-download anything?
''How can I say to my personal Dropbox account hat I own access to all the files in my business account, then point my personal account onto the folder where all the files are (in my business account folder) and tell it ''Hey there are all the data, read them and confirm and when you're done you will see that we don't have to download anything''''- Hannah
Hey fannafreyr, allow me to pitch in as well.
While you can't share the actual (parent) folder with your name on it, you should be able to share the contents, so each of the folders inside.
Keep in mind, though, that these are two different Dropbox folders from different Dropbox accounts at this point.
So, sharing the files from one account to the other, will populate them in the personal account/Dropbox folder as well and there's no way to tell the app now that these are the same folder, it would be too complicated.
However, you can delete the files and free up the space in the Business account afterwards, once the files are shared with the personal one.
