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How many people can use an individual plan?
Good morning. Single user plan means that only one user can use the same accont in many computers or device or what? TK
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Good morning. Single user plan means that only one user can use the same accont in many computers or device or what? TK
Dropbox Basic, Plus and Professional accounts are intended for a single user, allowing them to sync multiple devices. While it's possible for more than one person to share an individual account, it's a security risk to do so. Anyone with access to the account can take it over for themselves.
Hi everyone,
I am just new to DropBox and Replay and I have a query.
Say, I upgrade to DropBox plus plan for $12/month which also has Replay tool as add-on. With this I should be getting 2 TB of storage. Now if create a new project in Replay and then ask say 5 of my other team members to also create free accounts on DropBox - will I be able to share my 2 TB storage with them - allowing them basically to have unlimited number of uploads as long as everyone's upload total is within 2 TB? (currently, with everyone including me being on free plan - there is this message showing only 4 file uploads are available in Replay) OR even if I have 2 TB plan, my team members also need to pay $12/month individually if they want to upload more than 2 GB (which they are allowed as part of free tier)?
Thanks for your response and support in advance.
Regards,
V
Hannah
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHey virajamipara, thanks for taking the time to post here.
When it comes to individual accounts, only the account holder can access the space provided.
If you were to share folders with your team and give them edit permissions, so they can add/edit/delete files, they'd need enough space to add the folders to their account.
So, as a workaround, you could send them 'can view' links, to access the folders and then file requests to upload files to your account.
I hope this helps!
Hi Hannah, I was just going through this thread and wanted to raise a similar query to which Viraj has raised.
I am planning to purchase the Dropbox Essentials plan in which 3TB storage is provided. I have a project which requires ample storage capacity to store all its database and I feel 3TB will suffice for this requirement. My project is distributed between 8 regions where all the project activities are implemented. Now, as the owner of the parent account, I have designed my dashboard into 8 separate folders under which each folder has 6-7 sub-folders based on the various components of the project.
Eg: Region 1- New York (Mother folder)
a. Municipal activities (sub-folder 1)
a.1. Pictures
a.2. Reports
a.3 Videos
b. Sustainable Development Goals (Sub-Folder 2)
b.1. Pictures
b.2. Reports
b.3 Videos
c. Livelihood activities (Sub-folder 3)
c.1. Pictures
c.2. Reports
c.3 Videos
d. Case studies & Success stories (sub-folder 4)
d.1. Pictures
d.2. Reports
d.3 Videos
Region 2- Texas (Mother folder)
a. Municipal activities (sub-folder 1)
a.1. Pictures
a.2. Reports
a.3 Videos
b. Sustainable Development Goals (Sub-Folder 2)
b.1. Pictures
b.2. Reports
b.3 Videos
c. Livelihood activities (Sub-folder 3)
c.1. Pictures
c.2. Reports
c.3 Videos
d. Case studies & Success stories (sub-folder 4)
d.1. Pictures
d.2. Reports
d.3 Videos
My aim is to give access to one user per region i.e. 8 members wherein they can start uploading all their project related content systematically into the specific folders and sub-folders I created for them on my parent account.
Based on my requirements as stated above, I was informed by Dropbox sales team that under the essentials plan, I have the following options to choose from-
i) Option A- give the other users access (view & edit) to the folders wherein they can start uploading their data. However, this requires them to have an individual dropbox account with enough storage capacity to upload the required content. I cannot choose this option as this will require the other 8 users to register for dropbox and purchase their own plan. Some might have the free account with 2GB storage but that won't meet the requirement as the data they need to upload will exceed 2 GB. And some might not be willing to register an account with Dropbox.
ii) Option B- to share "file request" by sending individual links to the users so that they can upload the content. Through this option, the user does not need to have a dropbox account. He/she receives a common single link where they can upload the data.
This option seems inconvenient for my situation as the common single link does not give them access to the various folders and the sub-folders I have created. If I go with this option, under New York region, I will have to send the user 16 separate links to ensure that they only upload the data as per the required sub-folders I created. This can be quite a hassle, time consuming and confusing for the end users. It could result in them uploading data on the wrong link shared.
iii) the last option provided was to choose the business plan where I could add other users on my account under a team account. But the tariff is quite high which does not suit my budget.What in your expert opinion can I do here??? I just want to let other users upload content on my parent account without having them worry about having enough storage. Only the storage from my account should be used.
If I have to go for option 2 where multiple links have to be sent to the users, do you have any practical/convenient suggestion for me to work this out???Thanks
- Mark
Super User II
Hi Zacheo Murry
The rules on this have changed since the initial thread was made in 2021. It is against the Terms of Dropbox to have multiple people on one account. Using this as such can cause an account to be disabled which results in it being lost including all data and not recoverable.
For your project to work you need individual accounts upgraded accordingly.
Thank you Mark
The upgrading of individual accounts is highly unlikely to happen so I guess the best option for me is to choose the "file request" option where I shall minimize the number of links I plan on sharing with them.Cheers!
