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Lou H
11 months agoExplorer | Level 4
downgraded after removed from team
Our Dropbox professional trial account was added by mistake to a team account. When removed back from the team we were downgraded back to Dropbox basic, and lost our remaining time on the upgrade (on...
- 11 months ago
Hey Lou H - sorry to jump in here, but I just wanted to mention that you should have been refunded for the remaining of your (previous) subscription when you joined the team.
As Rich mentioned, you can re-upgrade to the plan you'd like at this point.
PS: If you'd like to contact our support team for further assistance on this, you can use this form from an incognito window without being signed into any Dropbox account.
Lou H
Explorer | Level 4
Hi Rich, thanks for your reply. My mistake, this isn't exactly a trial, but it was + plan that was upgraded for a year to professional. So meaning we have half a year remaining on that plan. (we paid for it). Impossible to find anywhere to contact dropbox directly.
Walter
11 months agoDropbox Staff
Hey Lou H - sorry to jump in here, but I just wanted to mention that you should have been refunded for the remaining of your (previous) subscription when you joined the team.
As Rich mentioned, you can re-upgrade to the plan you'd like at this point.
PS: If you'd like to contact our support team for further assistance on this, you can use this form from an incognito window without being signed into any Dropbox account.
- HelloMarylou11 months agoNew member | Level 2
Hi Walter, It's worse here. The same thing happened to me and then the person deleted me from the Team and now I have to wait 7 days to make my account back on my mailadress. I can't get to my own files now and there's no way to get help, I'm horrified by this and need help right away. We're in the middle of buying a house and my accountant needs to get to our administration which is shared with him on Dropbox.
- Walter11 months agoDropbox Staff
Hi there HelloMarylou - sorry to hear about this.
In this case, you'll need to have the team's admin contact our support team for further assistance in recovering your account back to the team. Once this is done, they'll be able to convert your account back to an individual one as outlined here.
I hope this gets sorted for you soon.
- HelloMarylou11 months agoNew member | Level 2Hi, thanks.. I have eventually figured that out via the Help thing from Dropbox. And luckily my client who added me to their team was available to get me back on the team, and then throw me out by converting my account into a personal one. I do feel that there have not been good warnings when I clicked on the button to join the team. When Dropbox sees that I’m joining a team while having a business account myself, that should be enough reason to have me confirm again if I really really really wouldn’t rather make a new account to join the team. And what happens when I do join.. cause this was just a click on a button and everything was gone. The stress it caused was not a good way to start the day I’ll tell you that.
But thanks for the solution, it is the correct solution 😂 so for whoever has this problem. Do what Walter says.
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