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fannafreyr
3 years agoExplorer | Level 3
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...
Hannah
Dropbox Community Moderator
3 years agoHey 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.
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