leave a comment if you still use this method and anything you’ve found that helps keeping it alive.

Given the new features, I wasn’t finding a great reason to invest more time into reverse engineering the software again to preserve this workaround. The last time I attempted to use it in 2020, the whole thing stopped working each time a new Dropbox update was released. Is the Shared Dropbox method dead? Probably. This means you can finally share your Dropbox with your family with their own Dropbox accounts without paying for separate accounts. Secondly, family plans are a thing now – so one can now share their Dropbox cloud capacity with family members using their own accounts. No longer do multiple copies of a Dropbox need to take up all your hard drive space. This eliminated the need for a giant hard drive to keep a giant Dropbox sync copy. It’s now a standard feature on all paid Dropbox accounts (and for the most part, it works now). Smart Sync has evolved since it’s release in 2017 to business and enterprise accounts. As new features have come out and come of age, this workaround has lost it’s relevance.

The main reason for sharing a Dropbox account across Windows desktop accounts was to solve multiple problems that, together, made the workaround worthwhile. Well, I personally have stopped using the Shared Dropbox method outlined in this blog post as of 2020.

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