I keep my personal content (eg photos, music, backups of my personal systems) in my personal dropbox. My work dropbox contains software builds, presentations, customer stuff etc. Both are paid accounts. I work from home and hence use the same system for work and home activities.
What I want is to be able to access both sets of content on many of my machines. For example I can read my work and home email on multiple devices. But dropbox for Android only allows for one account, as does dropbox for Windows and Mac.
Shared folders are a no go. First of all I don't want to mix personal and work stuff. Secondly dropbox penalises you. For example if two users each separately pay dropbox for a 100GB account and then user 1 shares 25GB of content with user 2, dropbox will subtract 25GB from user 2's allowance. ie what you pay for is the total amount of data you can access, not the amount of unique data.
Couldn't you create multiple user accounts on Mac OSX and then leave one dropbox account logged in in each account, and use local permissions to access files in one account from the other? You could probably do the same with Windows, although I'm not sure how permissions would work.
Having to have an entire extra user session logged in, just to keep dropbox running is way overkill. I did briefly experiment on Linux having two user accounts with different home directories but the same user id (numeric) but other bits of the system really didn't like that.
In any event my original point is that this sort of setup will increasingly happen, none of the existing products handle it well, and it is a factor to consider when choosing what products to use.
What I want is to be able to access both sets of content on many of my machines. For example I can read my work and home email on multiple devices. But dropbox for Android only allows for one account, as does dropbox for Windows and Mac.
Shared folders are a no go. First of all I don't want to mix personal and work stuff. Secondly dropbox penalises you. For example if two users each separately pay dropbox for a 100GB account and then user 1 shares 25GB of content with user 2, dropbox will subtract 25GB from user 2's allowance. ie what you pay for is the total amount of data you can access, not the amount of unique data.