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devynosborne
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Linking Personal and Business accounts - Account types?

I searched the help and forums, but couldn't quite find the answer to my question.   My wife has a long-held Dropbox Plus personal account, which syncs to her laptop (via the Dropbox app with the...
  • Rich's avatar
    3 years ago

    devynosborne wrote:

    But this page confuses me about whether a Plus account can be linked with a Professional account, or if it has to be a Business Standard.


    While Professional is considered a business account, it's an individual account, just like the Basic and Plus accounts. Account linking can only be done with a team plan, which would be Business Standard or Business Advanced. You can't link a Plus and Professional account.

     


    I believe I read there are actually two different Dropbox folders (presumably labeled appropriately) that otherwise behave like a normal personal one. That would be ideal.

    That's correct. The existing personal account would have its folder renamed to Dropbox (Personal) and the Business account would be in a folder called Dropbox (Team Name), where Team Name is the name you give to the Business team.