no longer have access to the email I signed up with

[Erin7]

I need to update my email address in my account because I no longer have access to the original email. If I update it in my account, will it send anything to the old email address? In other words, will I lose access to my account if I try to change the email address from an account I no longer have access to?

[Rich]

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@Osbourne wrote:
So its better to talk via email, not here.

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It depends on the issue. Your is an account related matter which would require personal information/details which can't be discussed in this PUBLIC forum. This is why email addresses and other personal information are removed from posts.

[Osbourne]

So? What shall i do, what is your help? i am waiting for your advise.

[Rich]

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@Osbourne wrote:
I received mail from @Elise and replied.

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So? What shall i do, what is your help? i am waiting for your advise.

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Wait for them to reply.

[Osbourne]

Four pages of useless conversation when everything could be resolved much faster!

[Cole99]

Hello, I am Cole. I foolishly created a Dropbox account using a temporary email address, and now that I am trying to log into my Dropbox account, my verification code is being sent to that email. The problem is, that email address has been deleted, and now I cannot receive my verification code. I am locked out of my account. There are a lot of files stored in that account, and I need them because I accidentally formatted the hard drive containing the original files. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Hannah]

Hey @Cole99, sorry to see you're having this issue.

Do you perhaps have any devices linked to that account?

If not, would you be able to contact the email service provider for assistance on possibly re-enabling the address?

[Cole99]

I have contacted them, and I'm waiting for their reply.

[PEI4Andrew]

Any help. Please.

So my business email of 20+ years was hacked into and that started the process of recovery.  Thankfully I have methods in place to recover and I've done such over the past few weeks.  It seems there's been a casualty in the process, dropbox.

My business email was used to create my dropbox account but that email is no longer valid.  I created a new dropbox account under my new email address, but naturally that account is separate and thinks I am a free user at 2GB.  The capacity is not the issue, it's getting in to the old account where other engineers, contractors, and architects are putting their files.  I suspect synching is the issue, but I'd like to simply delete the old email address from the old account and be done. 

I believe I can login to dropbox on a laptop I occasionally use.  Attempts to check via architect dropping a drawing in yesterday and I didn't have it on my end.  I don't know of any phone numbers to call for support.  Is support really just chatbot and this community?  Any help is greatly appreciated.

PEI4Andrew 

Just noticed at the bottom of this it has a checkbox, "Email me when someone replies."  Yeah right.  That's part of the problem.  The old email has been deleted!

[Hannah]

Hey @PEI4Andrew, sorry to see you're having this issue.

If you know your old email address and the password you were using for your old Dropbox account, you can still sign in to it on your browser; have you tried?

[PEI4Andrew]

Jumping through hoops even to reply to you.  Authentication error for a minute there.

Yes.  My laptop logs into my old account but it's not the same as it was before the old email address account was destroyed and eliminated.  Again yes, on my laptop it opens but coworkers putting in files are not seen on my end.  In addition, some folders are missing as they were before.

I only speak of my laptop because on my desktop (preferred machine) I can only open a new free user account that I wish I never made.

Andrew