How to Transfer Files from Personal Dropbox to Business Dropbox Easily

What is the Difference between Dropbox Personal and Dropbox Business?
How to Transfer Files from Personal Dropbox to Business Dropbox via MultCloud
How to Transfer Files from Personal Dropbox to Business Dropbox via Dropbox Desktop App
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What is the Difference between Dropbox Personal and Dropbox Business?

To know how to transfer files from personal Dropbox to business Dropbox, you could first know what is Dropbox and the differences between personal one and business one.

Dropbox is a popular cloud storage service. It offers the service of storing, syncing, and sharing files online. Dropbox has more functions like Sign, Backup, and Capture for users to make work easier. Not only personal services but also business services are provided by Dropbox as Dropbox and Dropbox Business. So, what are the differences between Dropbox personal and business? Here this post will list some discrepancies.

Price and Storage

If you are a new personal Dropbox user, you can get 2 GB of free storage. But if 2GB is not adequate to use, you can choose to upgrade to the paid plans. The basic personal paid plan costs $11.99/month for 2 TB of storage. However, there is no free storage for business Dropbox. If you want to use Dropbox Business, you have to purchase the basic Standard plan at least which costs $18/month for 5 TB of storage and can be used by more than 3 users.

Usage

Personal Dropbox is mainly used for personal storage and managing personal files. While Dropbox Business is used for organizations, so it centralizes the files together. Dropbox Business builds a closer connection between team members. For example, you can set Lock editing to disallow other members to edit the shared files when you are editing. Also, watermarking can be used to protect files on Dropbox Business, so it has better security.

You can see in the above illustrations that Dropbox personal and business do differ from each other. But how to move files between a team and personal Dropbox account? The next parts will explain in 2 ways.

How to Transfer Files from Personal Dropbox to Business Dropbox via MultCloud

MultCloud serves to manage multiple cloud drives and it collaborates with more than 30 + popular cloud drives. MultCloud offers Cloud Transfer to migrate files from one cloud to another without manually downloading and uploading. So, it is a good choice to use Cloud Transfer to move files from personal Dropbox to business Dropbox. There are more features that you can apply to the transfer task to make it more customizable.

Options: Here you can choose how to deal with the repeated files, whether to delete the transferred files in the source cloud, whether to keep the file modified date, whether to rename and keep a script of a file that has special characters in its name, and whether to keep all the transferred files in one folder.
Schedule: If you want the transfer task to run automatically at a fixed time, you can use it to make it run daily/weekly/monthly.
Filter: It is used to batch-select some files and you can order the task to only transfer these files or not transfer them.

Move Files between 2 Dropbox Accounts by Cloud Transfer

Step 1: Enter the MultCloud website and click “Get started for free”.

Step 2: Click “Add Clouds” in the left sidebar and click the icons of Dropbox and Dropbox Business to log in. When you finish logging in to your accounts, Dropbox and Dropbox Business are added to My Cloud Drive.

Note: If you want to transfer files from one personal Dropbox account to another, click the Dropbox icon twice and log in to different accounts.

Step 3: Turn to Cloud Transfer and select Dropbox and Dropbox Business in their corresponding boxes. You can also choose to transfer the folders or files under your Dropbox. Then all you have to do is click the button “Transfer Now” and the task will be finished soon.

Notes: If you have masses of files to transfer from Personal Dropbox to Business Dropbox, you can upgrade to a premium plan to get more traffic, enjoy faster transfer speed, and use all the paid features.

How to Transfer Files from Personal Dropbox to Business Dropbox via Dropbox Desktop App

Except for the first solution, you can transfer files via the Dropbox desktop app. However, you need to download it to the local position before you begin to use it which may occupy the storage of your computer. The steps are as follows.

Step 1: Enter the Dropbox website and download the Dropbox app from it.

Step 2: Link your personal account with the business account by opening the app preferences, clicking "Account", and selecting "Add personal account" or "Add team account".

Step 3: After adding the 2 accounts, click "Link" and enter the second account's password. Then there will be 2 Dropbox folders in File Explorer.

Step 4: Copy the files that you are willing to transfer from your personal account folder and paste them to the business account folder in File Explorer. Till now, the files have been moved from Personal Dropbox to Business Dropbox.

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Conclusion

After reading this post, you will master 2 solutions on how to transfer files from personal Dropbox to business Dropbox. You can choose your favorite one to try or you can try both of these 2 solutions. Either one is easy to handle.

The first solution is transferring files via MultCloud. This solution is easy to follow and the transfer speed is fast, so you can finish the task within a few minutes. And the second solution is transferring files via the Dropbox desktop app. It requires downloading the app before and the transfer process goes by copying and pasting which is time-consuming and depends much on the network stability.

As you can see, transferring via MultCloud requires you to do fewer things, so the first solution is more recommended. Except for Cloud Transfer, other functions like Cloud Sync, Cloud Backup, and Team Transfer are also helpful. Problems such as syncing multiple Dropbox accounts are no longer difficult to solve. So, maybe you can give MultCloud a chance.

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How do I move files from one Dropbox folder to another?

To move files from one Dropbox folder to another, open Dropbox, locate the file you want to move, right-click it, select "Move," then choose the destination folder. Alternatively, drag and drop the file into the target folder.

What is the difference between Dropbox and Dropbox transfer?

Dropbox is a cloud storage service for storing and sharing files, while Dropbox Transfer is a feature within Dropbox for sending large files or collections of files to others via a downloadable link, designed for one-time sharing and tracking file downloads.

Why can't I move files in Dropbox?

If you can't move files in Dropbox, it could be due to insufficient permissions, sync issues, or the file being in use by another program. Ensure you have the necessary permissions and that Dropbox is fully synced, and make sure the file isn't currently open elsewhere. If issues persist, restarting Dropbox or your device may resolve technical glitches hindering file movement.

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