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rgau
7 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Can I connect two business Dropbox accounts?
I have my own "Personal" Paid Business Dropbox account that I have synced to all my devices. This is a Personal Dropbox account but I pay the annual fee for a Business account as I enjoy the addition...
- 7 years agoHi there rgau!When referring to a personal Dropbox account, this is read as a Basic/Plus/Professional subscription. A Business plan would be read as a work account.As the message suggests, currently, connecting two personal (Basic/Plus/Professional) or two work (Business) Dropbox accounts is not available. You can find more info on this here.However, you can keep the Dropbox account that you use for personal purposes logged on your desktop app, and login with the other account through the website - or vice versa.Hope this helps to some extent! :nerd:
Lusil
7 years agoDropbox Staff
Hi there rgau!
When referring to a personal Dropbox account, this is read as a Basic/Plus/Professional subscription. A Business plan would be read as a work account.
As the message suggests, currently, connecting two personal (Basic/Plus/Professional) or two work (Business) Dropbox accounts is not available. You can find more info on this here.
However, you can keep the Dropbox account that you use for personal purposes logged on your desktop app, and login with the other account through the website - or vice versa.
Hope this helps to some extent! :nerd:
- MLFung6 years agoNew member | Level 2
When will connecting 2 business accounts be available?
This will be a really usable feature - using web for one and desktop app for the other as a temporary work around is too rudimentary for those of us who work on multiple branches or our small businesses.
- Lusil6 years agoDropbox StaffThanks for sharing your thoughts on this, MLFung!The dev team is working on implementing additional improvements, but we don’t have a timeline to share about this yet.In any case, I’ve added your comments and passed them along to the team. If you have any other thoughts, do let us know. Cheers!
- maximus16 years agoNew member | Level 2
I'll jump in and put my vote behind such a feature. I don't think it's uncommon for a lot of freelancers to work with several companies at the same time, and Dropbox is a prolific tool.
It's a massive hassle to have to unsync accounts, or have to go through safari, everytime I move from one project to another just because they are in seperate business accounts.
Personally I'd like to have one personal and several work accounts all linked together and synced to my computer, but currently I can only have one of each.
I hope this can be bumped to priority :)
kind regards
Magnus
- stortip7 years agoNew member | Level 2
Hi, I have this configured - A personal business account - work account; Shows as the e-mail under the name of my company. Then for the client I configured personal DropBox to that e-mail address. The client is under the personal DropBox. Open your admin monitor and set Business and Personal e-mails(two tabs in monitor)
- Anita25316 years agoNew member | Level 2
On a Mac: How to add folders at finder level when you are dealing with multiple DropBox accounts (freelancers with multiple clients):
- Log out of DropBox
- Log in to client A’s DropBox account with your unique email and password for that account ClientA@email.com
- From the web portal, find the folder you need and SHARE that folder with the DropBox account you have finder access to MyEmail@email.com
- Log out of DropBox
- Log into DropBox using MyEmail@email.com, check that email account for the link you just sent yourself from DropBox
- Click on the link in the email, add that folder to DropBox in finder
- Note: you may be able to skip some of the log in/log out. I haven't experimented yet. But sharing the folder works!
Remember to choose “Smart Sync” access “Online Only” or “Local” (right click on the folder). It may be necessary to have a business account vs a personal account in order to have enough storage space.
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