Personal account to Business account - All files gone

Thanks for taking the time

Hi rideintothesun, let's jump right into this! 

If you created a personal account, then they shouldn't be having an issue inviting you to join their Business team. 

You might need to choose to either join the Business team using this account, or create a new one, but that's up to you entirely. 

If you have any questions, let me know!

Hi Walter, I need help. I accidentally created a personal account by logging in via Google using my work email. Would that prevent my company's team admin from sending me an invite to join the team account? Would you have to convert my personal account to a team account? I couldn't find any help content about this. Thank you in advance. 

Hey fannafreyr - sorry to jump in here, but I just wanted to mention that you have 2 options at this time.

The first would be to simply copy or drag and drop the content from the Business folder into your personal Dropbox account, but this will require the files to sync to the account online and be re-uploaded to the new personal account. 

The second would be to ask the admin of the Business team account to remove your from the team while making sure that they convert your account back to an individual one and then invite you to join the team with another account/email address. This will require a reindex to update the account from the removal from the team, but you won't have to sit through the re-uploading process. 

Let us know if you need any further assistance. 

Thanks for the reply Hannah 

So would you have me go to every folder/file in the business Dropbox file (my former personal Dropbox account) and click each and every one and share there to my new personal account? I must have 200-300 folders in there. Is there not any easier way to do this? 

And by this message ''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.'' you are basically telling me that I have to re-download the 2TB to my new personal Dropbox folder? Even though it's on the same hard drive as the business Dropbox folder? I can't just copy the content from the business one, paste into my personal account Dropbox folder (on the same hard drive), then share all the folders from my business Dropbox to my personal and then my personal Dropbox already has all the items/data in it's folder and it doesn't have to download them?

Thanks for taking the time @Walter to reply to me. I really appreciate it.

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.

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''''

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.

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''