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Way to stop Dropbox disallow people from requesting to join our team?
Is there a way to not give people the option to join our team? Every time I send a file to someone outside of my dropbox team (which is almost daily) they must get some kind of additional email telling them they can request to join our team, because I usually get a follow up email with random people who got the file asking to be part of my company's team. Is there a way to stop this? Or lock our team from outsiders?7.9KViews10likes19Comments
A user's personal account was deleted via business plan
Hi, now I am trying business plan trial now. Yesterday I invited a user to my team and he joined without creating new personal account. Then I tried to remove his account from the team just to release buisiness plan license, so I removed his account on team management console. As a result, his account itself was completely deleted! Q1. Do I have any way to restore his account? Q2. I need more info about what the buisiness account is. I coulnd't notice the risk to merge personal account to buisiness account. When a users receives invite to team, he was asked wheter create "personal account" or not. If he chose to create "personal account", was his account protected completely? Q3. Can team admin user remove a user from team without deleting the user's account? If I can't, it seems great inconvinence...Solved7.5KViews0likes14Comments
Can't access main Admin account for Dropbox as email no longer exists
Hi -Our main admin left the company. We had access to her dropbox but the freelance IT guy came in, changed our emails from Fasthosts to another provider and cancelled the Fasthost plans, so that email no longer exists and cant be reinstalled. We now have no access to the admin of this Dropbox account and the IT guy has full access as it looks like he's stored the passwords for when he was accessing stuff through Teamviewer - but we need that to stop immediately as other things have gone on We can access the other account linked but they don't have admin permissions, and so our IT guy has full control of this account and not us?! What can we do?? Thanks2.2KViews0likes15Comments
Is the admin of a team account able to access the contents of all folders?
Hi, I am the bookkeeper of a business. We would like to upgrade Dropbox to Standard and make it more secure. We think the manager should be the admin and a user, and I should be a user. At present, Dropbox and all its folders are accessible to anyone who can access the computer. We would like that to remain the case for some folders, but other folders should be password protected. I have shared one folder with our accountant, which I use to upload information which should remain confidential from the manager. Is the admin able to access the contents of all folders, even if they are not shared with them? Can this be done in Dropbox Standard and if so, how please? Many thanks.203Views0likes3Comments
I received an email that my team is locked - how can I save my files?
Hello , this morning I received this email from you ( screenshot below ) and that my team will be blocked etc , I'm not aware that I'm starting a team , rather I don't remember because I've been using DropBox for 10 months and I have the Basic plan or the free one . My point is that I don't want to lose my files because there are folders of my minecraft modpack via Technic Launcher , and most importantly dropbox suits me and it's the only one that works :d . And most importantly I don't even know how it's meant to be Team , please explain more . Thank you4.5KViews0likes3Comments
Transfer ownership of files from a disconnected user to the whole team
Hi. I need your assistance please. I am trying to move some files from an admin's personal account to our Team folder so that all the users in the organisation have access to these files. The folders are owned by a user who has been 'Disconnected'. The user has not been 'Deleted', so I don't seem to have access to the 'Manage files' option to transfer ownership of these files. As a result, I can't move the files. I am an admin of the organisation, trying to do some cleanup! Is there any way around this? Please let me know if you need any more info. Thanks so much.1.5KViews0likes6Comments
Our previous admin deleted our Dropbox accounts and we can't log in
I am currently working as a freelancer and we subscribed to a Dropbox premium account and we store them all of the files that the company is needed. Suddenly our team admin got an issue with the company and got fired. Then he deleted all the accounts of dropbox and blocked all of us. We cannot contact him through call or text. Is there any way to retrieve the account? We badly need all of the visuals and poster that was uploaded to that account. Please help us. Thank you3.2KViews0likes8Comments
