Mirror? Getting a Google Drive error: "The app is currently unreachable."
http://pastebin.com/bRBkXCGG
Thanks :)
How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for only $795
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Re: How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for only $795
#12At the risk of stating the obvious, that invitation email ought to be a bit more informative. Maybe, there ought to be an option to create a new account for use with that team.
Re: How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for only $795
#13This is why I never trust services like Dropbox. It's painful to maintain backups manually but at least I can sleep well at night knowing that the only points of failure are within my control
EDIT: because I realize its not completely obvious, I keep multiple backups with my own servers sitting in different data centers. I don't see how you could trust any external service to store data.
Re: How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for only $795
#14I can imagine why it is so hard to roll back to your old account once you leave a team. It might be best for companies to advise their employees to create separate dropbox account before joining a team.
It may be due to key encryption methods?
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#15I'd be really surprised if Dropbox didn't have a way to revert this (and to punish the Dropbox for Teams account creator, if identifiable).
Revert this how?
Ann has an individual account. She joins a team. She leaves the team, and Bob (the team account owner) revokes her access. Dropbox deletes all her accounts.
What can dropbox do here; set Ann back as a member of that team? Bob (paying a lot of money) is not happy with that.
Re: How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for only $795
#16This seems like an issue best resolved through Dropbox support, not through HN Soapbox support.
Edit: My main point is that I come here to read Hacker News, not Some Other Guy's Support Problems. Treating every dropped use case as a public relations crisis is just an exercise in getting yourself worked up for no reason. If this is a real issue that affects multiple, real users, then I'm sure Dropbox will do something about it. For now, I think it's reasonable to treat it as an oversight until we have a response from Dropbox or more information. Unless, of course, you're the type of person that just likes to get pissed off at companies. In that case, I should probably find another community to read "hacker news".
Re: How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for only $795
#17Intermingling personal and work accounts is almost always a bad idea. I've seen colleagues get their personal accounts subpoenaed, have a firing result in loss of primary email/cell, or have really awkward communications show up in an IT audit.
The overhead of maintaining separate accounts is very small (multi-profile browser, multi-account smartphone, etc.), and more than worth it given the liabilities. Beyond that, I think it's just a lot healthier to know where the boundaries between your work and personal life are.
Re: How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for only $795
#18I can imagine why it is so hard to roll back to your old account once you leave a team. It might be best for companies to advise their employees to create separate dropbox account before joining a team.
If it's hard it's due to bad design. It could've been possible.
Re: How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for only $795
#19Would you also be able to get all of your enemies files? or would your enemy have to share all his folders with the team?
Re: How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for only $795
#20So when joining a startup (or anything else) that uses Dropbox for Teams, you make a new account just for that project? Perhaps startups (and other entities) that require dropbox membership might make that suggestion?
I don't think making a new account just for your Teams access is very convenient. The desktop application is only associated with 1 account at a time. So (until Dropbox changes something) there does not seem to be a good solution to your question.
Have your startup get you a separate computer. Not mixing work and personal life extends to not doing work development on your personal machine or vice versa.