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William Tolley
4 years agoNew member | Level 2
Forced to use single sign-on with university email address
I have had a paid account with Dropbox now for years and recently after moving to a different university for graduate school, I changed the email address to the one I use at the new university. This ...
- 4 years ago
Capitulated. I'm downloading and deleting everything and moving to another provider. Probably Box or self-hosted ownCloud.
William Tolley
New member | Level 2
No, I can't because I can't log in without agreeing to make the university an admin. I believe that they have a business team or whatever, but my account was created over 8 years ago and is a paid plan. I don't understand how using an email address associated with them would suddenly restrict my access to storage that I pay for without giving them ability to see, modify, and delete everything.
William Tolley
4 years agoNew member | Level 2
Capitulated. I'm downloading and deleting everything and moving to another provider. Probably Box or self-hosted ownCloud.
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