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Support for dropbox free teams ends March 31, 2022
ciao, oggi ho ricevuto una mail che mi informa che dal 31 marzo non sarà più possibile utilizzare il team di lavoro in modalità free😅 volevo capire se effettivamente dal primo aprile le cartelle ...
- Hey Sveva, thanks for posting your questions to our Community.
With the deprecation of free teams, the only things that are changing are:
1) Account pairing (if you have your free team account linked to a personal one, they will get unlinked)
2) You will no longer be able to access team features, like groups.
Everything else in your account, along with your files and sharing permissions will remain the same.
For more info, you can take a look at the email you received about this.
Let me know if you have any questions!
Yesterday I got notified that my Dropbox account, which I have had and used for years, was being basically downgraded.
I started years ago with a paid Dropbox personal account. Then, after a while, Dropbox offered Teams as an upgrade, which I jumped at. Now I had the ability to keep my work and personal files in separate locations on my computer and still share from either folder. I linked clients into certain folders, and was shared to by other clients folders we collaborate on. I work daily in both my personal and work team folders.
Until this morning.
This morning is when I learned that Dropbox was ending the team folder, and had converted it to a personal account. Now I had a Dropbox Plus account without the team functionality, and an orphaned work folder no longer attached to my Mac's Finder.
When I tried to sort this out with customer service, followed by support, I learned that the only way I was going to be able to continue working the way I had been was to upgrade to a business account. Basically, since I did not want to do business from my personal account I did it from the team folder. Now all my team work folders were unlinked and the only way to manage them would be by logging into that separate account online, since all syncing was cut off from my computer. This forces my hand to upgrade.
However, it turns out other new restrictions were added. First, Dropbox converted my team folder to a personal account, so there is no way to sync it back as a whole. One cannot add a second personal account to a business account, so the only way to get those folders back is to share them individually back to my old account. That is tedious. There are a LOT of files.
Secondly, now there is apparently a sharing transfer daily cap, so I was only able to share 4 folders back to my old account before that daily limit was reached. That means it may be days, perhaps weeks before my files are back in any semblance of order, and in the meantime I am going to have some awkward conversations with clients about why things are messed up and not working smoothly.
What is my trade-off? Nearly twice the price, half again the storage, (when I was only at about 15% of the 2TB I had) and what, the ability to add a logo? Dropbox, You have now cost me days, perhaps weeks of productivity.
This will also be shared to all my social media accounts.
😞
