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amymcc
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5 months ago
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I need to add an email address as secondary, but it's already in use.

Hi! I'm an independent contractor for a company, and I set up a Dropbox account with my new email address. However, I upgraded my freelance business account to Dropbox Plus and would like to make the...
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    Nancy
    5 months ago

    Hi amymcc! Welcome to our forum and thanks for posting today.

     

    What you mention is correct; to use an email address for your new Dropbox account (even as a secondary one), it’ll need to be disconnected from any other Dropbox account it’s currently linked to. 

     

    One option is to delete the other account indeed. If you do this, then all of your personal files/folders will be permanently deleted and you won’t be able to access the files that were shared with you previously by other users. You can see more details on this here.

     

    However, there’s another option which is to change the email address of that account to a third one (that’s not used by any other account) and then use the one you want as a secondary for this account.

     

    Let me know if that helps.

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Nancy
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5 months ago

Hi amymcc! Welcome to our forum and thanks for posting today.

 

What you mention is correct; to use an email address for your new Dropbox account (even as a secondary one), it’ll need to be disconnected from any other Dropbox account it’s currently linked to. 

 

One option is to delete the other account indeed. If you do this, then all of your personal files/folders will be permanently deleted and you won’t be able to access the files that were shared with you previously by other users. You can see more details on this here.

 

However, there’s another option which is to change the email address of that account to a third one (that’s not used by any other account) and then use the one you want as a secondary for this account.

 

Let me know if that helps.

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amymcc
New member | Level 2
5 months ago

Thank you, Nancy! The third option worked, so I now have the secondary email set up. I appreciate your help!

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