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mostlybaffled
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3 months ago

Is the admin of a team account able to access the contents of all folders?

Hi, I am the bookkeeper of a business.  We would like to upgrade Dropbox to Standard and make it more secure. We think the manager should be the admin and a user, and I should be a user.  At pres...
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mostlybaffled
New member | Level 2
3 months ago

Thanks Mark,

As Dropbox states that password protection is possible in some plans, I assumed that this could apply to folders.  I now understand it just applies to links.

Is it possible to operate totally different Dropbox accounts on the same computer?  Would one need different email addresses?  

Many thanks.

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Megan
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3 months ago

Hey mostlybaffled​, thanks for posting here! 

You can link a Dropbox personal account, and a Dropbox team account together, in order to be able to switch between the two. 

However, if you're talking about two individual accounts, or two different teams then the best thing you could do would be to sign out of each account, and then sign into the one you want to have syncing to your device.

I hope this clarifies!

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