Can I merge two accounts?

[Judge Joyce]

I have two dropbox accounts under different email addresses. How do I combine the two accounts into one

[Jay]

Hi @Judge Joyce, thanks for posting today!

Currently, it isn't possible to merge two Dropbox accounts. 

You could use shared folders to move files from one account to another. 

If you have any further queries, feel free to message back.

[Judge Joyce]

Jay can you explain how to do that?

[Judge Joyce]

Please create a simple way to do it. The sharing of files is difficult when you have quite a number of files in each account why shouldn’t we be able to just drag and drop from one account into the other?

[Mark]

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@Judge Joyce wrote:
why shouldn’t we be able to just drag and drop from one account into the other?

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My guess here is that Dropbox is designed and intended that each person only has one account. You are not supposed to have multiple ones. They dont want people having lots to 'cheat' the quota system. 

[Mark]

Have a look at https://help.dropbox.com/share/share-file-or-folder

[Judge Joyce]

my two accounts were not an attempt to cheat. And in fact, one of the accounts has payment for unlimited storage. One account was personal, and one account was for business which has now closed. I want to save everything in one account so that I don’t have to keep logging into each one separately! 

[Megan]

Hi @Judge Joyce, thanks for posting here today! 

If you use the desktop app, you can always make a copy of the content of account A locally, outside of your Dropbox folder.  

Then you'd need to sign out of account A, and into account B, and transfer everything there. 

Or, you can do what my colleague @Jay already mentioned, and create shared folders from one account, to the other. 

If you have any questions on how to do that, don't hesitate to let me know! 

[Judge Joyce]

I tried to follow Jay‘s instructions and I couldn’t get it to work. I can try using the computer and making a copy but right now I am having problems with my computer. Since Microsoft added copilot, without anyone’s permission, my computer freezes, and I am waiting to speak to someone from Microsoft tomorrow, can you give me detailed instructions as to how to do what you suggest once the computer is fixed? Thank you.

[Nancy]

Hi from me as well, @Judge Joyce! 

As a first step, can you please clarify if you already have the Dropbox desktop app installed on your computer? 

If you do, and you open your local Dropbox folder there, do you see the files of the Dropbox account you’d like to keep, or the files of the business that’s now closed?