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JustinS's avatar
JustinS
Explorer | Level 3
12 months ago

'An error occurred' message when trying to accept Family invite

Hello,

I am trying to accept an invite to join a family plan, however I am getting an error that reads: "An error has occurred. Please contact family manager for help."

Our family manager has nothing he can do to fix this issue. We have also tried the following:

-Logged in and out
-cleared cache, cookies and previous history
-Tried incognito
-Tried to use mobile app, desktop app and web app.
-Tried in other explorers like edge, firefox, etc....
-Tried looking through the website and forums for a solution

It would be great to get some technical help to fix this error.

  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
    Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

    Sorry to see that you're having this issue, JustinS.

     

    Can you please take a look at this article with some reasons why you might not be able to join the Family plan, to see if anything applies to you?

     

    Keep me posted!

    • JustinS's avatar
      JustinS
      Explorer | Level 3

      Hello Hannah,

      As mentioned in my initial post, I have been through the website and specifically this article you have referenced. 

      I have been through all these steps multiple times and confirmed none of them apply to my account. My account is a dropbox basic, I am not part of another family plan, I am not in a restricted region, I do not have an extended version history, I am not logged into a dropbox team account, and we have talked to the person with the family plan and tried multiple invites; nothing works.

      I would really appreciate a more direct solution by a rep to repair this glitch, because it seems we cannot do anything on our end.

      • Hannah's avatar
        Hannah
        Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

        Thanks for confirming that, Justin.

         

        In that case, can we send you an email, so we can take a deeper look?

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