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New member | Level 2

2 years ago

Can't log in "Previous sign-in interrupted" error

As it says above ... Can't log in "Previous sign-in interrupted" error. Any help appreciated. It's a business account if that makes any difference.

Sam DBX
11 months ago
Hi everybody,

Appreciate your comments here. We’d like to share some key takeaways from this discussion.

If you’re getting the ‘’ “Previous sign-in interrupted" error’’ please check if you hit the device limits of your account:

Dropbox Basic users can be logged into up to three devices at a time.

Dropbox Plus, Family, Professional, and Essentials customers can log into as many devices as they need.

Dropbox team users can log into as many devices as they need, but admins on Advanced, Business Plus, and Enterprise teams can limit the number of devices their teams can link.

Actions to take:

Unlink some, or all your devices. Instructions in here.

Request your company Team Admin to manage your devices via the admin console:

Tip 🎯: they can use the Exception list to allow only you to have more than one connected computer.

Video Tutorial here.

This is the most recent info we've got for now. To keep things clear on the topic, we will be closing off this thread. If you’re still having issues, please start a new discussion and we’ll look into it!

Thanks,

Sam

Explorer | Level 3

Thank you, I have now resolved it

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Dropbox Staff

2 years ago

Awesome news, if you need anything else let us know Sbigger09!

KevinOff
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago
I am now having this same issue. Can someone post what they did to resolve it?

I am on a business account, and I am an admin. I am setting up a new PC for a user, but currently logging in to it as myself. It is a Windows 11 PC, running Chrome. Tried with Chrome version 94 and 116, same error. We are not updating to Chrome version 118 due to a bug in that version that affects my company.

I am also unable to view user attributes in the Admin panel, so I can't check how many devices I have enabled. The page is showing an error:
- KevinOff
  Explorer | Level 3
  2 years ago
  Update:
  
  I found that my company settings had restricted us to 3 devices. I upped that to 4 and Dropbox signed in perfectly. This seems to be an issue with device count, and an un-clear warning from the dropbox app that you have hit your device count max.

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