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nbkuz92
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

Merge Two Personal Accounts

I have two personal accounts.  Account A has much more storage than Account B, however, Account B is linked to my preferred email address.  Account A is linked to an email address that is provided by...
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Rich
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4 years ago
nbkuz92 wrote:

How can I move my files from Account B to Acount A AND switch email addreses from Account A to Account B and B to A?

Create a shared folder between the two accounts. Move the files from B into the folder, then go to A and move the files out of the shared folder to another location in A's account. This will remove the files from B. Once you have all of the files in B moved to A, you can delete account B which will free up that email address so you can use it on account A.

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    rashid1
    Helpful | Level 5
    4 years ago

    Great.

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