Please allow pairing of more than two accounts.

[jstolder]

Please allow pairing of more than two accounts. As a contractor, I am a member of a company's business account, a team member of another company, and have my personal account. It is frustrating to only be able to pair two of them, so that when I need to access the third, I have to completely sign out of the others and sign in fresh for the third.

[Walter]

Thank you for sharing your idea.

We have looked into this, but it is not something we are actively working on at this time. 

We regularly review these ideas, and we will keep you updated if this idea moves forward in the future.

[fjazzfjazz]

Great @Chris Meeks , please keep us posted! In this working remote/freelance world syncing 2 bix accounts (unlimited) is a must! 

Thank you 

p.s. @AlignAdmin there is hope!

[Jay]

The Dropbox team is currently reviewing this idea. We will share any updates with you.

[AlignAdmin]

@fjazzfjazz lol Im a windows user, this wasn't hard to work around. I have 3 accounts loaded now.

You just have to install them in different user profiles then launch them all from the same one.

(which shows its been easy to implement, just not in their interest)

[HappyTales]

I realise this is a popular feature request, but a customer support agent suggested I add my voice to the crowd and directed me here to do so.

I work as a contractor and am a team member on multiple business accounts. I find it very frustrating that I cannot *seamlessly* view all of these accounts in Finder on my computer, under the same computer account. I can do this with a personal and a business account, but not multiple businesses. 

I appreciate there are workarounds (using the web interface, using different computer accounts), but these are rather clunky and impractical measures rather than the streamlined integration I would expect from a company such as Dropbox.

I really hope that this feature is seriously considered and implemented soon, since it appears people have been requesting it for over half a decade! I see from this comment that there was a beta planned for November 2022 - can you update on whether this went ahead, and whether it was successful?

Thanks for your time.

[sedanielson]

Could you be more specific on what you mean and how to do this.

[sedanielson]

@fjazzfjazzplease provide instructions on how to do this.

[fjazzfjazz]

@sedanielson I believe it was @AlignAdmin that figured this out, not me. I am also unclear on what the specific instructions were:

1 "You just have to install them in different user profiles..." ok, got this part. 3 unlimited accounts I ok, right AlignAdmin? 

2. "...then launch them all from the same one." That is the part I dont understand. What does it mean to launch them all from the same one, same account? I cannot log in and sync more than 2 accounts, and there can only be 1 biz account and a personal one. please explain (in detail, we are slow lol)

[AlignAdmin]

I have actually said this a few times in here but I understand that no one reads the thread from start to finsih 🙂

OK so one Windows user account per Dropbox, these can be local user profiles, no need for MSAccount profiles but they can be if you want.

On each account move the dropbox folder to a common area such as C:\DB\Box1 box2 box3

(Box# is an example folder name, use names that mean something to you)

Last action, turn OFF the start dropbox on startup, then logout of the profile, repeat per extar dropbox

Return to your normal profile, and for each additional dropbox create a shortcut as follows

C:\Windows\System32\runas.exe /savecred /user:UserProfileNameHere "C:\Program Files (x86)\Dropbox\Client\Dropbox.exe"

UserProfileNameHere is replaced with the user profile name of course.

On first run of the shortcut it will prompt then save the user profile password.

optionally move those shortcuts into the Startup folder if u want them to run on login.

Thats it, all your doing is getting windows to run each users dropbox.

AMAZINGLY COMPLEXE EH!

When I first did this all the dropbox icons used to show up in the icon tray next to each other, dripbox has changed some code now and only the last one launched shows up now, not a big issue.

Hope this helps.

[Walter]

Hey @HappyTales, thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts on this.

I just merged your post under this idea, so feel free to take a look and upvote it too to show your interest. 

As for the beta you mentioned, you can try replying to that post and @mention the Dropboxer if you're interested in joining. 

[fjazzfjazz]

Thanks for that @AlignAdmin , I remember this now, my bad. I was supposed to look into a MAC version of this work around, but then the issue of MAC's no longer allowing Dropbox to sync external drives, took all my attention way from this issue here.