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Multiple Business accounts with the same email+2 Business accounts on the desktop.
I need multiple drop box teams for different customers. It is not practical for everyone to create multiple e-mail addresses for each dropbox. Is there a solution for one person to be on different te...
I cant fix the one email per dropbox account, but I dont honestly think that is a big concern. Just use Gmail accounts and name them accordingly.
Here is how to have multiple Bussiness accounts runing at the same time on Windows 10.
1) Create a common place for the dropbox folders to be placed say C:\DB ensure the permissions on this folder are set to full access EVERYONE or to the set of windows users you are going to use. So creating your dropbox here will make C:\DB\Dropbox (ComapnyName) or something like that. You have to select the location C:\DB at install time or use the move function if already installed.
2) Next you must create a window user for every additional dropbox account you want.
3) Setup the Additional dropbox account in the additional windows user account. Set the base folder to C:\DB and it will add C:\DB\Dropbox (2ndCompanyName). Set this additional dropbox account to NOT START automaticly.
4) return to your primary windows user account, right click the start button and select RUN then enter "shell:startup" this opens a File Expolrer in your user Startup folder
5) in the Startup folder right click and select NEW shortcut, then in the shortcut address field (1st one) paste the following
C:\Windows\System32\runas.exe /savecred /user:TheAdditionalWindowUsername "C:\Program Files (x86)\Dropbox\Client\Dropbox.exe"
* TheAdditionalWindowUsername is the name of the additional windows username not the string litteral "TheAdditionalWindowUsername"
6) Run the shortcut, the first time it runs it will ask you for the password of the windows user specified, supply it and it saves it for auto start next time.
Thats it, the other windows user Dropbox will start and sync files while your in your main windows user account. runas.exe does just as its named, runs something as another user but in your user login.
The Special file explorer menu for the dropbox folders will not appear for the other accounts so favorite them to the top of the explorer list, remember all the folders are in C:\DB
* I have used this approach for the last 5 years *