How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for only $795

Re:How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for o... by xoail on Monday December 24, 2012 @10:20AM (#4963026)

I 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.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for o... by mnutt on Monday December 24, 2012 @11:13AM (#4963213)

I originally signed up into our dropbox team account with my personal account. At some point dropbox emailed me and effectively said "hey, not a great idea to have your personal account merged with your team account." They had an interface for me to select which files were personal files and split those back out into my personal account. Overall it was a pretty smooth process, since at the time I had pretty much accepted that there was no going back.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for o... by Yoni1 on Monday December 24, 2012 @11:28AM (#4963266)

I have never received such an email. I totally did not see it coming when my account was deleted.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for o... by Yoni1 on Monday December 24, 2012 @10:31AM (#4963065)

If it's hard it's due to bad design. It could've been possible.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for o... by mblake on Monday December 24, 2012 @11:00AM (#4963168)

Bad design most likely. Looking more carefully at the link in the initial email they sent you: 'confirm_migrate?'. This almost gives it away.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for o... by Yoni1 on Monday December 24, 2012 @11:11AM (#4963205)

I didn't even notice that until now, and definitely not when I originally clicked the link :)

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for o... by mblake on Monday December 24, 2012 @11:13AM (#4963216)

I feel for you. Internet hugs!

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for o... by sltkr on Monday December 24, 2012 @10:46AM (#4963122)

But good design is hard too.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for o... by barredo on Monday December 24, 2012 @10:27AM (#4963051)

It may be due to key encryption methods?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for o... by xoail on Monday December 24, 2012 @10:39AM (#4963099)

Yes, plus there is no distinction between your personal account and team's account once they are merged.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for o... by josh2600 on Monday December 24, 2012 @11:38AM (#4963306)

Normally I'd agree with you, but considering Dropbox uses the same private key for all storage... I don't know.

https://www.dropbox.com/help/28/en

[ Parent | on HN ]