[apike]

> Teams admins want better control of data within a Team

Some admins do I'm sure. We had to cancel Teams because of this. :(

Let me explain: most people at Steamclock sync personal stuff in their Dropbox, and we want to also share a large folder. Upgrading everybody to Teams seemed like a good idea, but the "company owns what's in your dropbox" thinking forced everybody to have two separate accounts, and the "only one account can sync to your computer at once" restriction makes one of your two Dropbox accounts fairly useless.

We can only go back to Teams is when multiple accounts can sync to one computer seamlessly. All the problems around DB for Teams (privacy and TOS issues, personal and company data getting mixed up, weird consequences when people leave the plan) are caused by the lack of multiple account sync.

That said, we'd be happy to just pay monthly for a shared folder that doesn't count against users' storage limits. In the meantime, we have the company Visa on a bunch of personal Dropbox accounts which sucks.

For personal use though Dropbox is great. Merry Chrismas!

[smokey_the_bear]

Our company would also love the option of paying for shared folder, instead of teams. We currently have teams, but it's not quite what we want, and if we temporarily want to share a folder with a client it is an big hassle.

[lucisferre]

I'm considering Google Drive for company filesharing. I've always found shared folders on Dropbox are pretty awkward. Hopefully GD will be a bit easier, but only time will tell. The one thing I can be sure of is it won't need to interfere with peoples personal Dropbox accounts.

[Gravityloss]

I've found that shared folders mostly just don't work - others can't see the files I put in there - or at least most of them. I don't know what else I could do. (If I share one file with a direct email link generation, that works, so the files certainly are there.)

Maybe I ran into some undocumented antipiracy feature as they were self made AVCHD videos of a few minutes length.

Google drive on the other hand just works.

[mnutt]

It's probably against their TOS, but it is possible to run your personal dropbox account and a team account on the same machine. It's a pain to set up, but works well once it's running. And since you're paying for both anyway, it seems like it's at least in the spirit of the TOS.

[roel_v]

Well it works but it's like running on 3 pistons. It's a serious pain to set up, when the Dropbox client is updated you need to update the 3rd party standalone client which breaks half of the time, and you need to manually switch to either one or the other (if you have one 'official' and one 'pendrive' version). Oh and it messes with your icon overlays on Windows. Massive pain, I regret going Dropbox for Teams but I'm sort of married to our setup now. The way it works is not clear at all - I had issues similar to the OP's which required support to resolve.