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Ruud-J
1 month agoExplorer | Level 4
Migrating from Dropbox Basic to Dropbox Plus
Hello , Can anyone give me the perfect instructions on how to best migrate from Basic to Plus?
Note : My Basic and Plus don't have the same email addres, so they are different accounts but on ...
Ruud-J
1 month agoExplorer | Level 4
Hello Mark , thanks for reply. My running box is my Basic , typically auto log in when starts up my laptop. If I want my Plus , I need to log out basic and log in to Plus. But the sync directories under Plus are not the one as under Basic. So my idea was : sync everthing in basic , then logout basic , copy al the files to plus directory and log in to plus and everything will be starting to sync dropbox plus in the cloud. But copy or move local from basic to plus enters some problems with empty files , or some errors ....
Mark
Super User II
1 month agoFab, that makes sense.
So, personally what I'd do to tidy this all up a bit is move everything to a new directory maybe on your desktop (so create a new folder, something like 'Dropbox temp'). Put all of the files/folders you want from both account into this new folder.
Log out of Dropbox on your machine and then delete the Dropbox directories.
Reinstall from http://www.dropbox.com/downloading and log in with the new Plus account. Once logged in drag everything from the desktop to the new 'Dropbox' folder and let it sync :)
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