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Account inactive for years but still received 6-digit code when I tried to sign in
Hello,
I have looked at several threads on here and have not found a good answer. I have an old Dropbox account that I lost access to back in the beginning of 2019. I lost access to it because the email associated with it no longer exists. I also know for a fact that any device that was once logged into it also does not exist. Any of those devices would be long gone.
There is no way any activity could be associated with the account, however today I went to enter the email and password, and it still proceeded to send the 6 digit code to the email that no longer exists.
Is this a thing with inactive accounts where sometimes it will still give you the option to sign in? I’m asking because at this point I just want the files to be deleted on the account, and I am not sure if that would be the case in this situation. I am not interested in gaining access to the account. I’m just concerned about my privacy because I had sensitive documents and personal information on there, and I’m hoping that maybe Dropbox still ended up deleting files, even though the option to sign in is still there.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Hey Trey3, thanks for reaching out about this.
So, basically, you're getting a prompt that a 6 digit code was sent to your email, but have no access to the email, to check whether it's been sent or not, right?
In that case, can I send you an email to the address associated with your Community profile here, so we can take a deeper look into this?
Let me know.
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Please "log a ticket" for me and send it to the email address that’s linked to my forum profile! It is an active email and I have access to it.
Thanks, Kathy
- Nancy
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hey Kathy! I just logged a ticket for you. Please reply back to it, when possible, and we’ll look into this.
Hi I do not have access to email. I do have login password, please email me at [Removed per the Community's Guidelines] if possible. the account that I am trying to access is [Removed per the Community's Guidelines] I get a notification of 6 digit code on login but as I said i do not have access to the associated email. Thanks
- Megan
Hey Pieter Lourens, let's jump right into this!
If I understand correctly, you can't access one of your Dropbox accounts, due to the 6 digit code, going to an email address linked with that account, that you no longer have access to.
Please keep in mind that the 6 digit security code is used when you access the Dropbox account from a different location for security purposes.
Without access to the email address itself, it wouldn't be possible to read this code. Is it not possible to recreate the email address and attempt to login again?
Keep me posted!
Thanks for your response.
Unfortunately, I closed that domain years ago. So I do not have that domain any more.
I only have the new ones .plgroup.co.za
Thank you
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Hey Amitkumar1, I can see that my colleague Megan has already sent you an email to the email address that's connected to your profile here, on our Community about this issue.
Have you had the chance to check it out by the way? If you can't find it in your inbox, you can also check your email's spam/junk folder to see if it ended up there somehow.
