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Re:How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for o... by DanBC on Monday December 24, 2012 @10:30AM (#4963059)
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 o... by john-n on Monday December 24, 2012 @10:34AM (#4963080)
No, they just have to remove anns access to any team based information, same as she was prior to joining?
Re:How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for o... by justinschuh on Monday December 24, 2012 @11:10AM (#4963203)
How do you do that? Once she joins the team, you have no way of knowing if something Ann created or modified belongs to the team or to her. This is the classic problem with "taint checking." Once you mix data across boundaries you have to assume it's tainted. I agree it's a crappy situation, but I can't see what Dropbox should change, other than make it very clear how this feature works to future customers. As a one-time thing, they could maybe get a PR win by helping this guy recover his data (if possible). However, that's not scalable, or a precedent they'd want to continue forward.
Re:How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for o... by nhangen on Monday December 24, 2012 @11:19AM (#4963240)
They can clearly delineate between team and personal accounts, force team storage to certain directories, and/or not allow users to manage team/personal accounts with the same login.
Re:How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for o... by justinschuh on Monday December 24, 2012 @11:38AM (#4963307)
I was specifically responding to the previous comment, to explain why Dropbox can't simply revoke access to team storage files at this point (because they can't guarantee what constitutes team data). However, I'm in agreement with you that Dropbox could introduce new features to prevent this situation from happening in the first place, and had already noted as much in a different comment.
Re:How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for o... by Dylan16807 on Monday December 24, 2012 @12:36PM (#4963469)
Dropbox doesn't delete the files, so none of this matters. They're only deleting the account, which revokes nothing but causes lots of problems. There is nothing hard to fix. Just switch it back to personal quota.
Re:How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for o... by Flimm on Monday December 24, 2012 @10:38AM (#4963092)
Dropbox could delete all data shared with the team from Ann's account. Then it could set Ann's account to read-only access until Ann deletes enough data to meet the new maximum size limit.
Re:How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for o... by revelation on Monday December 24, 2012 @10:36AM (#4963085)
That makes no sense at all.