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How to give someone else access to my dropbox
Can I give someone else acces to my account without sharing folders or links? in other words give that person a second login to my dropbox? (without them having necessarily a dropbox account of their own)
DO NOT SHARE YOUR PASSWORD WITH THEM!!!!
Doing that effectively makes them the owner of the account, the same as you, and allows them to do ANYTHING they want with it - delete it, change password, change the email etc. and if they do YOU HAVE NO COME BACK as you permitted it by giving them the details.
The only SAFE way to do this is via Shared Folders.
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- Mark
Super User II
DO NOT SHARE YOUR PASSWORD WITH THEM!!!!
Doing that effectively makes them the owner of the account, the same as you, and allows them to do ANYTHING they want with it - delete it, change password, change the email etc. and if they do YOU HAVE NO COME BACK as you permitted it by giving them the details.
The only SAFE way to do this is via Shared Folders.
Obviously, I wouldn't do it with people you don't trust entirely. Never with strangers.
Thanks everyone for swift reply. Don't worry I will not share my mail and password.
Unless I'm doing it completly wrong, I can't share a folder with someone who hasn't dropbox, can I? The free version of Dropbox is not good enough - too little space.
I actually would like to give them acces to some folders on my dropbox with their own password whilst I remain fully in charge of adminstrating those folders
- Jay
Dropbox Community Moderator
accidently shared dropbox with samsung int. how do i undo ?
