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Ruud-J
Explorer | Level 4
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 the same Drive D.

I currently have two Dropbox entries on my D drive: for convenience, let's say Dropbox Basic and Dropbox Plus. I use Basic daily, so all files there are currently up to date. Is it now a matter of copying all the files in Basic-Folder to Plus-Folder? I tried this, by the way, but it wasn't successful. The files were described in text in the Plus destination folder, but otherwise empty. There must be a workable method for this, right? Thanks in advance for your reply. Ruud

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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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    Mark
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    1 month ago

    Fab, 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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    Ruud-J
    Explorer | Level 4
    1 month ago

    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's avatar
    Mark
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
    1 month ago

    How exactly do you log on and work this Ruud-J​ ? As it isnt possible to have two installs of Dropbox running and working at the same time the way you are working this is going to be important. 

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    Ruud-J
    Explorer | Level 4
    1 month ago

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