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Jens Jensen
New member | Level 2
3 years ago
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Possible unwanted side effects of changing related mail account

Dropbox has notified me that you can not contact me using the mail address related to the Dropbox account I use at work. This is true, so I want to change it to use another mail account. This opera...
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    3 years ago
    Jens Jensen wrote:

    This operation itself seems to be easy and straight forward, but first I need to know if there are any unwanted side effects of doing so ?

    Nothing changes other than the email address. All links and sharing will remain unaffected and no directories will change their name (I can't think of any function that names a folder based on your email).

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Rich
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3 years ago
Jens Jensen wrote:

This operation itself seems to be easy and straight forward, but first I need to know if there are any unwanted side effects of doing so ?

Nothing changes other than the email address. All links and sharing will remain unaffected and no directories will change their name (I can't think of any function that names a folder based on your email).

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    Jens Jensen
    New member | Level 2
    3 years ago

    Thanks a lot, i'll change the email address tomorrow

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