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Paul43's avatar
Paul43
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

Keep safe access to documents when another user has closed their account

I want to keep access to some documents a family member has shared with me, before they close their dropbox account.   A family member is about to close their dropbox account, but before they do ...
  • Mark's avatar
    3 years ago

    Hi Paul43 

     

    Closing the account wont do anything to the files in yours 🙂

     

    However, if you want to be ultra safe simply move the files out of the shared folder in to your own directories and then they are totally independent of the other account.