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21 TopicsNeed Strategy Advice on how to get TB's of data from external drives to DB Biz Unlimited
long-time Dropbox Basic user here (tho did the Pro for about a year once), along with my wife who continues touse Pro. i'm getting tired of using "bandaid" solutions for our ever-growing data space needs. by that i mean, every year or two having to purchase bigger/multiple external hard drives for it all; not to mention the hassel of having to have double the need for "backups"; plustired of having drives fail & the hassel of fixing/replacing. SO, i'm starting to research Cloud-based solutions. wondering if we can just finally do-away with all the external drives & just rely on a Cloud solution - not only to store & have access to all the data that won't fit on our little MacBook & MacBook Pro SSD drives, but to also rely on it's redundency/auto-backup in case something goes wrong in the Cloud with the primary access point. yes, i know this would require Internet access any time we want/need to interact with our data - that's not a problem (for us). after researching about ones like CrashPlan, BackBlaze, etc, & even straight up Amazon something'or'other, it dawned on me to look & see if Dropbox could accomodate our desires here. we've been using Dropbox already for years & have been very happy with it. it's been a smooth'n'seemless integration on our Mac's & iOS devices. but it's never been a place we've considered for "mass storage" because everything that's in our DB's is also synced & resides on our computers. then my wife discovered the "Selective Sync" feature in her Pro account, and that got me to wondering if it's possible to somehow send all our data (currently aprox 6TB) up to DB & use Selective Sync to make sure it's not ALL trying to sync with our computers. but in what i've read thus far, it's NOT possible to sync an external drive up to DB. i've also read that DB will not provide a "seed" drive via the mail like others (CrashPlan) does. so, before i start to strategize HOW to make this happen, i guess i need to know IF this is possible at all --> ??? seemsto me that i should be able to subscribe to a Dropbox Business account that both my wife & i can be members of; then i suppose i would have to little-by-little copy data from the external drives over to my Mac's DB sync folder. then when i've used as much precious SSD space on my Mac as i can spare, turn on the Selective Sync option for all that; then delete, rinse, & repeat until it's all up there. another question comes to mind --> can't i create a "Symlink" of my Mac's DB folder to an external drive to save the steps'n'time of the above scenario??? next, regarding DB Business's "unlimited space" (a.k.a. "As much space as needed"), i read... https://www.dropbox.com/help/225 ...that indicates my wife & i would only get 1 TB of space, then we'd have to contact DB for more!!!!! WTF is THAT all about?!?! i don't want to have to contact support, sales, or anybody when i hit that 1tb limit (which i will, at least 6 times right off the bat). if it's truly "unlimited" then it should just be unlimited. am i misunderstanding something here??? additionally, i notice on the "Pricing" page, Business shows "$12.50 / user / month". does that mean for my wife & i, it would be $25/mo? what if we don't need any "teams" or "groups" nor any additional "spaces"? we just need ONE dropbox location we can sync everything to so both of us have access to it. but we'd need to keep our respective DB account areas that only sync to each of our Macs (mine for me + hers for her + one shared). does that all make sense? FYI, in case it's a perceived issue... both my wife & i work from home with our own businesses, so it would be "for business" more than personal use. THANKS!!! -jason.Solved6.1KViews0likes4Comments
Shared link gives error "link doesn't exist"
Hi please could someone help . I was sent a recording of a session I had and the link worked for about 3wks ... but when I click on it now a message comes up ‘ link does not exist’ Its really important to me 😞 could someone tell me how to sort this please thank youSolved5.1KViews0likes6Comments
Should I combine my account or create a new account??
Hey! I was sent two emails from my company during the onboarding process. The first was to access a specific teams folder, the second was to join their DropBox team. I followed the link to access a specific teams folder first which prompted me to create an account. Once I followed the second link to join their DropBox team, it said I already had an account (from the first link) and that I would need to either combine the accounts or keep them separate and create a new account. I'm a little nervous to combine the accounts because it seems like there are some stipulations that will treat my account differently than it would if I had joined the right way from the start. The first account was created using my company email which I imagine I wont be able to reuse if I create a new account. Does anyone have a suggestion on what the safest route is to not mess up my company's dropbox on the first day and still be able to use my work email as my main account? 🙂 Thanks!Solved2.8KViews0likes7Comments
Invite to my Employers Dropbox wanting me to subscribe or upgrade
I had access to my employer's account but it was linked to an old email address I no longer have access to. Now my Boss has invited me to join his Dropbox folder again to my personal Dropbox account, however, Dropbox wants me to subscribe or upgrade to a Business account in order to join his account as a staff member. How do I fix this, I don't need a business account.Solved1.8KViews0likes12CommentsMigrate to TEAMS account
Hello, have two separate accounts: Account 1 - Dropbox One - 3TB - $299 / year Account 2 - Dropbox Plus - 2TB - $119 / year Total $420 / year 5 TB Team account - Is it possible to convert to a TEAM account, keep separate folders and subfolders between two primary users, and maintain currently shared folders with from both with external users? I've read some horror stories about people joining a team, all their files are added to the TEAM folder and shared, then seemingly impossible to revert back to the separate accounts. As long as we can maintain separate shared folders with external clients , and separate folders for each and a shared team folder it would work for us. Can you advise if this is possible / feasible ? The savings would be about $60 per year for 5TB Teams vs 2TB And 3 TB Separate accounts.Solved1.6KViews0likes5CommentsSubscription
I have a client that wants to share his folders on Dropbox, but I can't open it because I'm signing on with a free plan. If 2 or more companies want to share the same folder and location on Dropbox, does everyone have to pay for a subscription for enough data? Seems like only the original party that's sharing the folder would need the subscription. Thank you, SidonaSolved977Views0likes1Comment
