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Hi jweitzod, there a different solutions that can probably help you. When you share a folder, you can configure is in a way that it cannot be shared by others but only by the owner of the folder, which is you.  This works with all kinds of Dropbox plans. Just go into the sharing setting, klick on the rack-wheel in top right. You can adjust that it only be shared by you, not by others. When using dropbox business, take into account that you cannot adjust those settings for folders inside Team Folders, depending on your Team Folder config. Consider sharing a folder which sits in your Private Folder instead. As soon as you share a folder, even if your collegues only get rights to read it and not to write in it, it does not prevent copying files somewhere else. Downloading an copying a file can be prevented when you share a link instead of a folder. You might consider sharing a link with your collegues, because this covers most of what you want to do. Cheers, Christian ... View more

Hi ws4! You can only integrate two Dropbox accounts on one Mac (or PC) with the Dropbox application when one of them is a Dropbox Business account. You say that you have a Basic and a Professional Account. They cannot be functional on one Computer at the same time by using the Dropbox Application. You can find an explanation here.  Kind regards, Christian ... View more

Hi anthoney23, sounds like your plan is to use the Smart Sync function to save space on your local hard drive. That can work, but not as you've described. When you add files to your local dropbox folder, they are uploaded and synced with Dropbox, that's right. To save space on your local disk, you can select each file and folder and make it "online only" by using Smart Sync. What then happens is that the files on your local drive are replaced by something like a small placeholder. You still see each folder, file, its name, size, as if they were on your local drive, but they don't take up any space. When you then delete the "online-only" file, you not only delete the "placeholder" on your hard drive, but also the real big file in the cloud. What you can do: copy your files in 500 GB portions into your Dropbox folder wait until the process of copying is finished make all folders and files "online only" BUT THEN THERE COMES A CRITICAL POINT: Wait until the 500 GB are synced with Dropbox (that will take a long time, depending on your upload speed!!) Because only when everything is synced and uploaded to Dropbox, the Dropbox client will free up space on your local drive. Everything needs to be uploaded first. It cannot be removed before the upload process is finished. In the end, you must not delete the online-only file, because this causes Dropbox to think that you want to delete the file, and it deletes the file in the cloud as well. Cheers, Christian ... View more

Thanks Walter, nice to see that Dropbox and you value your customers' thoughts. I'm not a fan of too many third part integrations. Love Dropbox as it is, and it is sometimes hard to make other – older – generations of employees adopt to 'new technology'. It needs to be easy and right at your fingertips. That's what makes Dropbox and all the integrated features in it so unique. Cheers, Christian ... View more

@samertm Perfect, thanks for your answer! Cheers, C. ... View more

Hi all, I am a little bit confused by the recently added tags which say "Beta Testing" in the overview of client build releases. Is a stable version with the "Beta Testing"-tag only more or less a stable version? Which version do you roll out to those customers who have *not* opt-in for using the Beta Versions? I'm just asking because my business team is still on 75.4.142, which is named as Stable Version but tagged as Beta Testing. Confusion all over the place... ... View more