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justinl
New member | Level 1
10 months ago

I wanted to cancel my Business trial and ended up deleting my Dropbox account instead.

No clue what happened, so going to lay everything out here.

Have a personal professional DB account, and upgraded to business as a trial, a business with 1 user. This creates two folders, your old personal file and the team folder. I didn't like how personal files are so close to business, i basically have my entire life in DB so wanted more separation and would recreate a business team account with my work email.

Go into the business trial and cancel the trial. Which prompts you what would you like to do with the team files. There were no team files, I just created the account 5 min ago. There was only my personal files in a separate folder.  So i hit delete permanently.

My entire account is gone. It appears it permanently deleted everything and my account now says suspended if I try and login with my original email.

I have a support ticket in, but currently freaking out as my entire life is in that Dropbox. I'm very tech savy and felt like that entire process was a disaster. If i have a personal account, and create a team, common sense would be the business and personal are separate files and not together. So once you close the team, you just go back to your personal account. Especially since my personal account was being upsold as "Give this a trial for 30 days" 

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  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
    Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
    8 months ago

    Hey Sandyzheng -  I can see that our expert who was handling your request has replied to you, just yesterday. 

    Have you had the chance to see their response yet? 

  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
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    8 months ago

    Glad to hear it's  sorted now and thanks for keeping us in the loop too Sandyzheng 

    See you around the Community and have a lovely week ahead! 

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