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William Tolley
New member | Level 2
5 years ago
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Forced to use single sign-on with university email address

I have had a paid account with Dropbox now for years and recently after moving to a different university for graduate school, I changed the email address to the one I use at the new university. This ...
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  • William Tolley's avatar
    William Tolley
    5 years ago

    Capitulated. I'm downloading and deleting everything and moving to another provider. Probably Box or self-hosted ownCloud.

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William Tolley
New member | Level 2
5 years ago

No, I can't because I can't log in without agreeing to make the university an admin. I believe that they have a business team or whatever, but my account was created over 8 years ago and is a paid plan. I don't understand how using an email address associated with them would suddenly restrict my access to storage that I pay for without giving them ability to see, modify, and delete everything.

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tomnoltoun
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

I did the same, there was no other choice. Especially when you had to register to read a new book. Also recently read heart of darkness essay, used https://studydriver.com/heart-of-darkness-essay/ for this. The book is wonderful and I had to use the university email. With others, registration simply did not work.

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    Walter
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    3 years ago

    Hi there tomnoltoun, sorry to jump in, but could you elaborate on the issue you're facing so that we can assist further? 

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