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nbkuz92
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Merge Two Personal Accounts

I have two personal accounts.  Account A has much more storage than Account B, however, Account B is linked to my preferred email address.  Account A is linked to an email address that is provided by my ISP which I am soon going to deactivate.  How can I move my files from Account B to Acount A AND switch email addreses from Account A to Account B and B to A?

  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II

    nbkuz92 wrote:

    How can I move my files from Account B to Acount A AND switch email addreses from Account A to Account B and B to A?


    Create a shared folder between the two accounts. Move the files from B into the folder, then go to A and move the files out of the shared folder to another location in A's account. This will remove the files from B. Once you have all of the files in B moved to A, you can delete account B which will free up that email address so you can use it on account A.

  • Judette's avatar
    Judette
    New member | Level 2
    Does anyone know how to consolidate accounts
    • Megan's avatar
      Megan
      Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

      Hi Judette, let's jump right into this! 

       

      Are you referring to two individual accounts? What is the subscription to both of these accounts? 

       

      Provided you're referring to two Basic, Plus, Professional accounts, then currently, there’s no way to automatically combine them.

       

      The easiest way to combine content is to move all files and folders from the older account to the main one you want to use. You can follow Rich's steps here

       

      If you're not talking about individual accounts, let me know and we'll take it from there. 

       

      I hope this helps!

  • amitdonio's avatar
    amitdonio
    Explorer | Level 3

    Hi,

    i have two different team accounts that i want to unite.
    what is the best and fastest way to do it?
    if  i will use a share folder on dropbox1 and then move the data to different location on dropbox2, and then delete dropbox1, does the data is still on the cloud of dropbox2 and wont be lost right?

    thanks

    • Rich's avatar
      Rich
      Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II

      amitdonio wrote:

      if  i will use a share folder on dropbox1 and then move the data to different location on dropbox2, and then delete dropbox1, does the data is still on the cloud of dropbox2 and wont be lost right?


      Correct. As long as you move the files into the shared folder on Dropbox1, Dropbox2 will still have access to them if you delete Dropbox1. I would still recommend that you move the files out of the shared folder on Dropbox2 when they're finished syncing, just to be safe.

      • amitdonio's avatar
        amitdonio
        Explorer | Level 3

        dropbox didn't let me move the share folder to other location.
        is it connected to the fact that both dropbox accounts are team account? (business)

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