Can I have 2 Dropbox accounts on same computer?

Open the Dropbox mobile app and sign in to one of the accounts you’d like to link. Tap the menu icon (Android) or the gear icon (iPhone/iPad). Tap Settings. Tap + Add team/personal account.

How do I sign out of Dropbox on my PC?

Sign out of the mobile app
  1. Open the Dropbox mobile app.
  2. Tap the menu icon (Android) or the gear icon (iPhone/iPad). If you have linked accounts, you must be in the mobile settings of the account you’d like to sign out of. If not, switch accounts.
  3. Tap Sign Out From This Dropbox.

How do I change my Dropbox settings?

To access your Dropbox account settings:
  1. Sign in to dropbox.com.
  2. Click your avatar (profile picture or initials) in the top-right corner.
  3. Click Settings. To access different types of settings, click the tabs along the top of the page. Learn more about the different tabs and settings below.

How do I unlink Dropbox from my Mac?

Mac. Click the Dropbox icon from the menu bar and select “Preferences…” from the context menu. Click the “Account” tab followed by the “Unlink This Computer…” button. Click the “Unlink” button when prompted to confirm the action.

How do I Unsync Dropbox from my computer?

Here’s how:
  1. Sign in to the Dropbox website.
  2. Click on your name in the top-right menu → Settings → Security.
  3. In the Devices section, you’ll see every device you currently have linked to your Dropbox. Just click the X next to the device you want to unlink.

How do I change the Dropbox account on my computer?

Switch accounts in the Dropbox desktop app
  1. Click the Dropbox icon in your taskbar (Windows) or menu bar (Mac).
  2. Click your avatar (profile picture or initials) in the top-right corner.
  3. Under Switch accounts, click the account you’d like to switch to at the bottom of the dropdown menu.

What happens if I delete Dropbox folder on my computer?

When you delete a file from Dropbox, it’s no longer visible in any of the folders you see in your account. However, the file isn’t permanently deleted until after your recovery window: Dropbox Professional and Business accounts can recover deleted files for 180 days.

Why can’t I delete Dropbox from my Mac?

Open Activity Monitor (search for it with Spotlight) and force quit the Dropbox process (you can use the searchbox on the right to find it). After that, you can delete the application. Dropbox won’t uninstall because some of its extensions are running in the background.

How do I stop Dropbox from saving to my hard drive Mac?

How do I remove files from my computer but keep them in Dropbox?

If you want to delete a folder from the Dropbox account online but want the file to remain on your local Dropbox folder, Dropbox does not have an option to make it happen. However, what you can do is move the file or folder from the local Dropbox folder to outside the Dropbox folder and keep it as a backup.

How do I remove Dropbox from my computer without deleting files?

Why can’t I delete Dropbox files?

You may be unable to delete as many files as you want all at once since Dropbox limits the number of files you can delete at one time. You can’t permanently delete content from a shared folder unless it’s content you added and immediately deleted. Permanent deletion of files is required to free up space.

Do Dropbox files stay on my computer?

Note that even when synced to the cloud, files in the Dropbox folder on your hard drive remain on your computer. You can save space with Dropbox sync features, which allow you to make some or all your files online-only (we’ll get to that next).

Why is Dropbox taking up so much space on my computer?

When you save a file to Dropbox, it syncs with all of the devices you’ve connected with your Dropbox account. This means that it takes up space on each computer hard drive. This can create problems if your hard drive doesn’t have enough available space to sync everything in your Dropbox folder.

Are Dropbox files stored on my computer?

Save files to your phone

On your phone, Dropbox doesn’t work the same way as it does on your computer. The apps for Android and iOS don’t save and sync files to your device like the desktop apps for Windows and macOS do. Instead, they work like the Dropbox web app and show you your files in the cloud.

Why is Dropbox not syncing on my computer?

If you added a file to the Dropbox folder in File Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac) and it’s not syncing on dropbox.com or the mobile app, make sure the Dropbox desktop app is open and running on your computer. If Dropbox files are open in another application, they might not sync.

Where are Dropbox files stored on my computer?

user folder

How do I get my free 25gb Dropbox?

By default, the Dropbox folder is located in your user folder. If you moved your Dropbox folder, or if you connected a work and personal, it may be located elsewhere or have a name other than “Dropbox.” You can programmatically find the folder path through a JSON file.