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Two Personal Dropbox Accounts with different Plans in the same Laptop

Two Personal Dropbox Accounts with different Plans in the same Laptop

yulianwardhana
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Dear Community Support,
Newby here.

My intent: to have two personal dropbox account:
1st account with basic plan - been using this already and works like a charm. No intent to share.

2nd account will have family plan - files to be shared with fam members.

 

I just created my 2nd account (different email account) in the same machine. Want to upgrade this 2nd account to be Family Plan.

a) Would this intent meet the objective?
b) Will I see two different dropbox folders in my machine (file explorer)? If need to be re-setting, how? Don't want to loose the 1st account access.

c) Would it be easy to switch between two accounts in a browser? I saw my browser goes to the 2nd account everytime I call dropbox in the browser.

d) one of fam members using IOS. Would this be possible to share files between to operating system?

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Mark
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@Frank P E. wrote:

I have a windows computer with  multiple  userid's ( loging's )  and each user has  there own dropbox  id/account --- Is anyone running dropbox  on windows this way? 


It is quite a common workaround, however, remember that Dropbox will ONLY sync the account you are logged in to at that time (i.e. actively open in Windows). The others wont sync until you swap account


 


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Frank P E.
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Greeting @Mark --- thanks for your reply -- you answered my question that support could not understand even with screen shots and capture session.   So, in the case of the user that is NOT active, if the active user were to get a "poke" that there is a update pending, and the update is applied and the active users' session  is restarted what happends to the instance of dropbox.exe in the inactive session. I have come to the conclusion that when I switch to the inactive user and dropbox.exe is not running (any more) it was because dropbox.exe was update on the then active session --- does this make any sense? 

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