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Back to Dropbox Plus
Hello, I would like to return to Dropbox Plus and have my account returned to the state it was in prior to being absorbed into a Dropbox Business account.
The sequence of events was: -I was a Dro...
You should be able to leave a 'limited' team, the state a downgraded Business Team enters when it isn't renewed. You will still be a Dropbox Basic account at that point, and would no longer have access to files that are part of the team account, so before you try to remove yourself you will want to ensure you make local copies of any of your files in the Team folders . Once you have secured your files, and left the team, you should be able to upgrade to the personal account of your choice.
When a personal account joins a Business account, ownership of the files in the personal account transfers to the team, and the account is downgraded to a Basic account, with a refund of the unused portion of the paid account. (This is for the case of joining a business account with an existing paid account)
According to our help files, you should be able to:
If you would like to leave a team:
- Sign in to dropbox.com.
- Choose your work account at the bottom left.
- Click the button by your team name: Groups and members or # members.
- Click Leave team.
Rob_Cash
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffYou should be able to leave a 'limited' team, the state a downgraded Business Team enters when it isn't renewed. You will still be a Dropbox Basic account at that point, and would no longer have access to files that are part of the team account, so before you try to remove yourself you will want to ensure you make local copies of any of your files in the Team folders . Once you have secured your files, and left the team, you should be able to upgrade to the personal account of your choice.
When a personal account joins a Business account, ownership of the files in the personal account transfers to the team, and the account is downgraded to a Basic account, with a refund of the unused portion of the paid account. (This is for the case of joining a business account with an existing paid account)
According to our help files, you should be able to:
If you would like to leave a team:
- Sign in to dropbox.com.
- Choose your work account at the bottom left.
- Click the button by your team name: Groups and members or # members.
- Click Leave team.
Hello Rob Cash,
I don' t know who you are but in my mind you are a superhero. This worked out and I have returned to my status as a Dropbox Plus Plebian. Thank you!
Now further, how can one avoid being swept up into another business account and yet allow companies I work to harness my abilities without having to clear the entirety of my personal files and then replace them afterward? I move through a lot of studios and this could be very annoying.
Thoughts?
Thanks in advance.
All the Best-
jjf
- Rob_Cash
Honestly, the way I have done this to protect my personal account, and still be able to test team functionality ( I'm actually a QA guy that gets to test this stuff fairly often) is to create a basic account that I use specifically for this purpose. As a Gmail user, I have simply set up an extension named account (for example, if my gmail address is rob_cash@gmail.com, I would use rob_cash+test1@gmail.com) since Gmail sees the address as the same as your other account, but Dropbox sees the two addresses as different accounts.
When I need to use the test account for testing, I either rely on the web interface, or log out of the desktop client and switch to the test account in order to make it default, and manage my local files by moving only the intended to be shared content into the desktop client folder.
It is a bit clunky, but gives me the security of being able to always isolate my personal account, while letting me test on our live servers when I need to. If you never use the desktop client at all, it has even less impact since you just log into the appropriate account on the web.Hope that helps... Maybe other folks with other solutions will chime in as well, but since I focus on specific tests, I just use this as a nearly foolproof way to manage them.
