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Ruud-J
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1 month ago

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 ...
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Ruud-J
Explorer | Level 4
1 month ago

Mark , thanks.

I had this method in mind as well. Now, PLUS doesn't yet contain any relevant data, so merging Basic and Plus isn't necessary. So if I log out of Basic and then copy everything to PLUS, log in to PLUS, and forget about Basic, Plus should sync, and that becomes my new Dropbox, right?

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Walter
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1 month ago

Yes, that would be correct Ruud-J​. 

Alternatively, you can put all your files from the Dropbox Basic account into one folder and share the folder with your Dropbox Plus account. 

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