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Hi there! I've have a free dropbox personal account for 15 years, and at some point added a free Teams account. Several years ago I upgraded the Teams account to a Professional account. ----- Today I got this message, and all my Professional files were taken off my machines (they're still on dropbox of course) Business Dropbox Removed: Your business Dropbox account was removed from this computer because your accounts were unlinked. Your files have not been deleted. ------ I would love to be able to link my two accounts, and continue having two separate dropbox home folders on my machine. Basically, I am leaving the country tomorrow morning and will have extremely limited internet access. I just need it to work how it used to, but I accept that I may need an alternate setup based on whatever Dropbox has changed. When I am signed into my Personal (free) account, it says I have 3TB of space, and the same for the Professional account. Within the settings menu the Pro account is called Personal Account, but when I check the billing plan for the Pro account, it calls it Dropbox Professional. Any solutions? Many Thanks! (too bad this is my only option for customer support 🙂Solved11KViews5likes27CommentsClarifications regarding personal use plans vs business use plans
Hi, I am trying to figure out a general outline of all the plans, and here are my finds. Personal Use plans : (payed as an individual) 1. Basic 2 Gb 1 user free 2. Plus 2 TB 1 user 3. Family 2 TB 6 users 4. Professional 3 TB 1 user 5. Essentials 3 TB 1 user Commercial Use plans: (payed as a company) 1. Essentials 3 TB 1 user 2. Business 9 TB 3 users+ 3. Business Plus 15 TB 3 users+ 4. Enterprise Custom Custom But I also found another group of Business plans: 1. Professional 3 TB 1 user 2. Standard 5 TB 3 users+ 3. Advanced 15 TB 3 users+ Questions: 1. I see Essentials as being both in the list of personal plans as well as in the group of company payed plans. Is it correct? 2. Is Professional plan a company payed plan or a personal payed plan? 3. Standard is the same thing as Business ? Advanced is the same as Business Plus? Or are they different? 4. The 3rd group of plans (Professional, Standard, Advanced) are all company payed plans? 5. Are there plans that can be both personal payed as well as company payed plans? 6. I also want to know if all business plans are company payed plans or there are exceptions (personal plans that can be company payed for, or business plans that can be personally payed for). 7. Do Work account mean is a business account? (see question 6 for exceptions) Thank You, Dan4KViews0likes6CommentsWhat's the difference between a Family plan and a Professional plan?
I can’t find the differences between the family vs professional plan. I currently have the professional plan but want my wife to be able to upload her pictures to her own “Camera Backup_wife” folder and I believe that is not doable unless I’m mistaken? I read that a family plan would allow her to do this but I can’t find a comparison of the plans and so I’m wondering if I would loss features switching from Professional to Family? Will I still have large file transfers? And unlimited devices?Solved7.2KViews0likes3CommentsCan I use Mac OS Time Machine alongside Dropbox?
Having levelled up from the free version of Dropbox and using Time Machine alongside for years, and now on a professional plan and being told to ditch Time Machine. This is a potential deal-breaker. Why exactly is it a bad idea to use both together? I find myself stuck here because Dropbox is not a full backup solution, as we are constantly told. So I need to use a full backup solution like TM to back up my system drive - is there another Time Machine like app that I can use that will work alongside Dropbox and is recommended?3KViews1like4CommentsMy Dropbox Professional free trial hasn't begun?
Dropbox Plan Professional Payment Method Credit card How did you upgrade? Directly through the Dropbox website Question or Issue Hi, I purchased a Professional plan, entered my card details to receive the 30 day free trial. Shortly after purchasing I cancelled the plan, however I was expecting my trial to last until the end of the cycle (30 days) but it still says I have a basic plan. In my inbox, the only relevant emails I received from Dropbox were to: 1 Verify my email, and 2: Dropbox professional trial cancelled. I didnt receive am email upon account creation (not sure if thats usually the case) and I didnt receive a confirmation email upon Trial beginning, only after cancellation. Billing info on my account shows the Card used when starting the trial. Im also unable to start a new trial as it says my account is ineligible. Just wondering if anyone has had a similar experience or if there's any solution available. I havent been charged but Im pretty sure I should still be listed as having a professional trial, despite cancelling on the day of beginning the free trial as listed on the billing articles. Thank you,71Views0likes5CommentsShould I have a personal or Business account?
I own my business and use Dropbox Business. It's great and more secure than personal, which I have loads of data on. Is there any reason I should have both? I can't think of any. Seems like I should just migrate everything to DB Biz. Am I missing something?Solved3KViews0likes6CommentsWhat is the file limit per file on Dropbox file requests in October 2025?
Dropbox Plan Dropbox Professional Device Puget Workstation Ryzen B850 R110-S AMD Ryzen 9 9900X 4.4GHz 12 Core 120W 2x Kingston DDR5-5600 48GB Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5070 GAMING OC 12GB Operating System/Browser (if using the web) (Windows 11.) Dropbox App Version (if using the app) None Question or Issue Hello! What is the current, actual file limit PER FILE for Dropbox REQUEST files? I always believed it was 50GB, so I always asked my team to keep their uploads to 50GB per zipped file. However, a team member just uploaded a file that was 67GB, and I was able to download it without issue. If this is a change, I'd like to be aware of the new limit and to inform my team that the 50GB limit (which was always pretty annoying as our files tend to be over 150 GB per wedding), is no longer in place, making our lives easier. The reason I'm asking here is because I can't find any relevant or up to date information online. Everything I'm finding either mentions the 50 GB limit (which seems to have been increased), or doesn't talk about Dropbox Request, only Dropbox uploads in general. Thanks!Solved239Views0likes3CommentsWhere has the Dropbox Essentials plan gone?
Hi ... I've notice that the Dropbox Essentials plan has now disappeared (UK based) and the Professional account has now gained the couple of the Essentials extras.... E signatures etc I'm a Pro account holder and was going migrate over to the Essentials plan but can't as it doesn't exist - for UK... Confused ! Can Dropbox support offer some clarity .... ?? many thanksSolved727Views0likes9CommentsAll files in my Dropbox folder have the reparse attribute with System Extension turned off
I have two Dropbox accounts. Both have the System Extension disabled. However, when syncing on a desktop (Windows in this case), on one account, the Dropbox folder has the reparse attribute, as well as all files. I cannot remove this and should only be set if using the online-only feature. I want all files locally synced. I am syncing all folders and have nearly 1 TB of space left. (No folders are shared, files are taking up space) Now I noticed when I try to set the sync state to offline only, it always goes back to online only, no matter how many times I've set it. The reason this is a problem is I also use Backblaze, which cannot back up these files and folders. This behavior occurs on any machine I sync this account with. I can't remove the reparse attribute either-Windows just tells me access to the cloud file is denied. My other account does not have this problem. All folders and files in this account are offline only and the reparse attribute is not set. I have a ticket open with Dropbox, but honestly, I'm not expecting much from there. Does anyone have a similar experience?Solved460Views0likes7Comments