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rawdesigns
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3 months ago

Password protect within account on the Essentials plan

I have my account open on my chrome profile and it’s possible for people to get into my dropbox account from the several shared computers it’s connected to. So I was wondering if it’s possible to pas...
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Rich
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3 months ago
rawdesigns wrote:

I have my account open on my chrome profile and it’s possible for people to get into my dropbox account from the several shared computers it’s connected to.

If you're using Dropbox on a shared computer, you should be signing out of your account after each use. You should also be signing out of Chrome and not storing any credentials in the browser. It would be very easy to protect your account if you just used the security options already available to you.

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