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Complicated Account Question
I had my own Dropbox professional account. I was then added to another law firm's Dropbox account - a Standard account. I received my refund from Dropbox since I paid for the Standard account annually. I do work for this other law firm from time to time and need regular access to it.
I now need to add an employee to my own law firm who does not need access to this other law firm's Dropbox but does need access to my firm's files. However, I am now in the other firm's Standard plan. How do I make it so I can add a new user that only has access to my firm's files and not this other firm while also making sure I have access to both the other firm's files and my own?
Thank you!
TechChallengedLawyer wrote:
This is very complicated because I also used Dropbox Fax and Dropbox Sign and those are associated with the account that is now with this other firm. I'm not sure what to do.
If it were me, I'd have them convert my account back to an individual account and then re-join their team account with a different email address.
Can I remove myself from the other firm's account to take back my account?
You can't remove yourself from their team. The only way to leave the team and keep your account is to have the team admin convert your account back to an individual account. Again, should they just remove you from the team your account would be deleted and they would need to restore it. I reiterate that because we've seen many people lose their account because they didn't know the process.
Ask the team admin to convert your account back to an individual account and provide them with the following link:
Once converted, you'll no longer be a member of their team and you'll be able to upgrade your account to your own Business team account. If you still need access to files from the other company, ask them to invite a different email address to join their team.
- Walter
Dropbox Staff
Hi there TechChallengedLawyer - thanks for using Dropbox and posting on our Community!
Can you please let me know what your plan tab reports at the moment?
If you're part of a Dropbox for Business teams account, are you an admin of the team or just a member?
Let me know more and we'll take it from there.
Walter,
Thank you for your response. On the plan tab, I am listed as part of the other firm, under their account. It's a Standard account. I don't see anything about being an admin so I think I'm just a member.
- Hannah
Hey TechChallengedLawyer, sorry to jump in here.
Since you're a member of a Dropbox Business team, where do your own firm's files reside at the moment?
Are they in the folder with your name on it?
If you just want to share your own content and not the content of the team you're a member of, you can just create and share a folder with this user, so they can access the files you want them to.
They won't be a member of the team, just a member of the folder you will be sharing with them.
