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yulianwardhana
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago
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Two Personal Dropbox Accounts with different Plans in the same Laptop

Dear Community Support,
Newby here.

My intent: to have two personal dropbox account:
1st account with basic plan - been using this already and works like a charm. No intent to share.

2nd account will have family plan - files to be shared with fam members.

 

I just created my 2nd account (different email account) in the same machine. Want to upgrade this 2nd account to be Family Plan.

a) Would this intent meet the objective?
b) Will I see two different dropbox folders in my machine (file explorer)? If need to be re-setting, how? Don't want to loose the 1st account access.

c) Would it be easy to switch between two accounts in a browser? I saw my browser goes to the 2nd account everytime I call dropbox in the browser.

d) one of fam members using IOS. Would this be possible to share files between to operating system?

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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    3 years ago
    yulianwardhana wrote:
    ... is it possible to have two personal accounts in the same machine and sync

    No. You can link a personal and Business account together so they will both sync, but it's not possible to link multiple personal accounts to the same computer. The only way to sync multiple personal accounts to the same computer would be if each Dropbox account was associated with a different user account on the computer.

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  • Frank P E.'s avatar
    Frank P E.
    Collaborator | Level 9
    3 years ago

    Greeting Mark --- thanks for your reply -- you answered my question that support could not understand even with screen shots and capture session.   So, in the case of the user that is NOT active, if the active user were to get a "poke" that there is a update pending, and the update is applied and the active users' session  is restarted what happends to the instance of dropbox.exe in the inactive session. I have come to the conclusion that when I switch to the inactive user and dropbox.exe is not running (any more) it was because dropbox.exe was update on the then active session --- does this make any sense? 

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