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Jens Jensen
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3 years ago
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Possible unwanted side effects of changing related mail account

Dropbox has notified me that you can not contact me using the mail address related to the Dropbox account I use at work.

This is true, so I want to change it to use another mail account.

This operation itself seems to be easy and straight forward, but first I need to know if there are any unwanted side effects of doing so ?

1: Will existing Dropbox  links to directories within the account be broken?

2: Will other Dropbox accounts with whom I have shared directories still be able to access the shared directories without doing anything?

3: Will the local directory names used for my Dropbox account (which in some cases seem to be autogenerated from the mail-address) be unchanged.

I hope (and expect)that the answer is "Yes" to all of these questions, but better safe than sorry..

Jens


  • Jens Jensen wrote:

    This operation itself seems to be easy and straight forward, but first I need to know if there are any unwanted side effects of doing so ?


    Nothing changes other than the email address. All links and sharing will remain unaffected and no directories will change their name (I can't think of any function that names a folder based on your email).

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    Rich
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    Jens Jensen wrote:

    This operation itself seems to be easy and straight forward, but first I need to know if there are any unwanted side effects of doing so ?


    Nothing changes other than the email address. All links and sharing will remain unaffected and no directories will change their name (I can't think of any function that names a folder based on your email).

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      Jens Jensen
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      Thanks a lot, i'll change the email address tomorrow