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beandolph6
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7 years ago
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Business and personal account -- cannot unlink personal and link to new personal

I currently have two accounts, business and personal. My husband has his own account. With the upgrade to 2TB, we no longer need to have 2 accounts. I unlinked my personal account on my work la...
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    beandolph6
    7 years ago

    Thank you. It's now clear that the business and personal accounts are deeply linked, and that changing to a different personal account on my work laptop (where the business account already exists) will take much more than just unlinking on the laptop.

    My workaround will be to downgrade to an unpaid account (so that I can keep my current account on my work laptop), put what personal files I most frequently want access to at work in there, and go to dropbox.com when needed to access other files that will be in my husband's account.

     

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beandolph6
Helpful | Level 5
7 years ago

Thank you. It's now clear that the business and personal accounts are deeply linked, and that changing to a different personal account on my work laptop (where the business account already exists) will take much more than just unlinking on the laptop.

My workaround will be to downgrade to an unpaid account (so that I can keep my current account on my work laptop), put what personal files I most frequently want access to at work in there, and go to dropbox.com when needed to access other files that will be in my husband's account.

 

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Jane
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7 years ago
🙌🏼 Glad to hear that you’ve managed to get going on this matter with the workaround you posted us above beandolph6 beandolp6 & I appreciate it that you circled back to keep the thread updated on your decision! For that reason, I've now accepted your last post as the Best Answer, since it may useful to anyone else re-visiting in the future. 🤓
 
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