Hey guys - Dropbox product manager here, tl;dr: The scenario described by the OP is now less likely to occur. Since October, individual Dropbox users are encouraged to create separate accounts when invited to a Team and warned that Teams admins will have control over the account. We want individual and Team Dropbox users to have the best possible experience. Some users want to migrate their personal accounts into a T…
How hard can it be? At least you could restore all the files that were present on the user's account before it was made into a Team account... If courts can do it in case of a divorce, I guess a technology startup could as well.
Hey guys - Dropbox product manager here, tl;dr: The scenario described by the OP is now less likely to occur. Since October, individual Dropbox users are encouraged to create separate accounts when invited to a Team and warned that Teams admins will have control over the account. We want individual and Team Dropbox users to have the best possible experience. Some users want to migrate their personal accounts into a T…
Is it possible to run two instances of the Dropbox client on a machine, one for each account? If yes, ok, no big deal. If not... what a PITA.
The overhead of maintaining separate Dropbox accounts is pretty high IMO. There's no easy way to switch between accounts on the desktop client, an I'm pretty sure there's no way to be logged in to multiple accounts.
At this point, might as well use a competitor. Then you can have 2 different clients installed.
And a competitor that supports real backup, not just sync. Like SpiderOak. Client-side encryption as a bonus.
Hey guys - Dropbox product manager here, tl;dr: The scenario described by the OP is now less likely to occur. Since October, individual Dropbox users are encouraged to create separate accounts when invited to a Team and warned that Teams admins will have control over the account. We want individual and Team Dropbox users to have the best possible experience. Some users want to migrate their personal accounts into a T…
How hard can it be? At least you could restore all the files that were present on the user's account before it was made into a Team account... If courts can do it in case of a divorce, I guess a technology startup could as well.
Everything is easy if someone else has to do it, isn't it.
While I feel for your colleague, I have to wonder why he didn't have a backup if these files were important enough to spend several days trying to get them back.[1] [1] http://www.jwz.org/doc/backups.html
People frequently confuse file syncing facilities with backup facilities, and I don't think Dropbox does much to clarify which one they are. Although, I thought Dropbox kept a history on each file going back a month.....
Shoot. I've been thinking of dropbox as my backup. Now I wonder what would qualify as backup considering I want it to be automated and preferably not require me to write to media like DVDs. (Time Machine seems to be doing the trick on the Mac side, although... having all the backup media connected to the machine it's backing up means it's susceptible to simultaneous deletion, as well not being offsite means it is susceptible to theft/fire.) On the Windows side, I've been backing up just "important" files with dropbox, which has the benefit of being offsite and automated. I once used Mozy, but when I needed to do a restore they had problems generating a recovery image for me. I think they eventually got access to all the files after a few days. That wasn't reassuring.
Absolutely. As much as possible, I try not to log into personal stuff at work and vice-versa. In particular, I won't set up my work email on my phone unlike many of my colleagues. For one, there have been stories of people's phones being wiped off thanks to an Exchange admin feature. And second, if the company I work for needs me to have access to my email at all times, they need to pay for my phone and my bill. (on…
> For one, there have been stories of people's phones being wiped off thanks to an Exchange admin feature. Wow, this is such bullshit. Why isn't there a feature on the phones to block any such admin access?
Since ActiveSync is a patented and licensed technology, no major manufacturer is going to make a device that falsely claims to support remote wiping but actually ignores the command.
Remote wipe is usually implemented by simply re-setting the hardware encryption key, so there's no easy way to have remote wipe destroy only the corporate data.
Hey guys - Dropbox product manager here, tl;dr: The scenario described by the OP is now less likely to occur. Since October, individual Dropbox users are encouraged to create separate accounts when invited to a Team and warned that Teams admins will have control over the account. We want individual and Team Dropbox users to have the best possible experience. Some users want to migrate their personal accounts into a T…
Out of pure curiosity, why is it that the OP's original requests for help were ignored? Is it recommended that to get better support you should make a public case of it? A lot of larger companies seem to operate this way.
Hey guys - Dropbox product manager here, tl;dr: The scenario described by the OP is now less likely to occur. Since October, individual Dropbox users are encouraged to create separate accounts when invited to a Team and warned that Teams admins will have control over the account. We want individual and Team Dropbox users to have the best possible experience. Some users want to migrate their personal accounts into a T…
Is it possible to run two instances of the Dropbox client on a machine, one for each account? If yes, ok, no big deal. If not... what a PITA.
Yes, although there's not an officially supported method:
The second link is basically a modification of the method from the first link, and has been working well for me for a few weeks. One caveat is that any apps which make us of dropbox for syncing (e.g. 1Password) seem to automatically use the first/normal dropbox instance, which can't be changed.
Hey guys - Dropbox product manager here, tl;dr: The scenario described by the OP is now less likely to occur. Since October, individual Dropbox users are encouraged to create separate accounts when invited to a Team and warned that Teams admins will have control over the account. We want individual and Team Dropbox users to have the best possible experience. Some users want to migrate their personal accounts into a T…
I'm curious, why don't the Company doesn't just share the folders with the Individual and revoke access to the shared folder when the Individual leaves?
You won't have to combine to the Personal / Team together.
And make it so that the shared folders doesn't count towards the Individual's account space limit.
At this point, might as well use a competitor. Then you can have 2 different clients installed.
very good point. Have to add I run both Google Drive (larger box, 5gb for free, for personal stuff) and Drop for shared stuff never seen them "competing" in any way. Another thought is that on personal Google account I only keep couple TrueCrypt containers, based on size and open read/write close them any time I need the access. This is necessary because once you unount TC container, entire file is affected so it nee…