@depeters99 wrote:
The information I found on the Dropbox site seems to indicate otherwise:
"you can send anything—from photos and videos to zipped folders and large CAD files—to anyone, even if they don’t have a Dropbox account".
That's referring to the process of using a shared link to allow someone to view a file or folder. It's a view-only method of sharing. It's entirely browser-based for viewing and downloading, and does not sync files to a computer.
A shared folder is different in that each person accessing a shared folder needs to have their own Dropbox account, whether it's an individual account or as a member of a Business team account, with enough space available to hold the entire folder (team accounts share space, individual accounts do not).
The alternative to a Business team account would be for each person to have their own individual account with enough available space to hold the folder that you need to share. If the folder is 2GB or smaller, you can do that with Basic accounts, but if the folder is larger than that, each person would either need a paid subscription, or be a member of a Business team.
