Hi Zach,
We’re working to make it easier for your Dropbox for Teams administrators to manage all the stuff you and your teammates have in your Teams account. Soon, we’ll be releasing new features for admins to manage the security of your team’s stuff and make it easier for them to help when things go wrong.
In some cases, your admin may need the flexibility to take some actions on your Teams account, such as helping to manage shared folders or restoring access if you get locked out of your account. In order to clarify that admins may have access to team member accounts when managing the team, we're updating our Dropbox for Teams Agreement and Privacy Policy.
You might have some personal files in your Teams account that you’d like to move to a personal account. For example, if you want to keep vacation pictures in a different account from your latest Excel spreadsheet, you can use this online guide to move your files:
View the new agreement and get started here
Keep in mind that you can only link one Dropbox account to a computer at a time. If you need to access your other account, you can log in to the Dropbox website.
The updated Dropbox for Teams Agreement takes effect on November 3, 2012. If you have any questions, check out our Help Center or email us at support-teamsupdate@dropbox.com.
Thanks and happy Dropboxing!
- The Dropbox Team
I wonder how many people responding with "What's the problem?" actually use Dropbox for personal and work files? With and without Dropbox for Teams? Because I can't imagine anyone who has being a Dropbox apologist.
Dropbox has failed because they implemented teams at the user account level, not the shared folder level. Shared folders owned by my employer should be controlled by their admin, count against my employer's shared quota, and have the storage/bandwidth billed against my employer's account. All my other files, including those I've shared with family and friends, count against my quota. Dropbox has all the information necessary to have built their teams product that way.
Imagine if all of your personal GitHub repos ceased to be your personal repos and your GitHub account ceased to be a personal account when your employer added you to their organization in GitHub. That would be ridiculous, right? Right? That is analogous to what Dropbox is doing. Worse, because at least I can switch GitHub accounts without switching OS accounts or computers.
I use Dropbox on my phone. Am I supposed to have a personal phone and a work phone? The world used to work that way, but it's commonplace to have a single phone used for work and life. "Work and life". That's the outmoded thinking at play when Dropbox makes a product that forces you to choose one or the other.
Google got it wrong, too. If you have multiple Google App domains, Google Drive is a PITA, but at least you can switch drive accounts on the same OS login. I hope Copy aspires to be more than a Dropbox clone competing on price.