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Adding user

  • May 27, 2025
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I am currently adding users and I am having trouble with one user.

 

He already has a Drop Box and it says the email is already in use with a box account but not associated with an enterprise .

 

What do I or does he need to do to be able to become a user.

 

Thanks,

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  • May 27, 2025

Hi McKenna, 

Welcome to Box Community and glad to assist! 

The “Email already used in a Box account but not associated with an enterprise" message means that the user you are trying to invite already has a personal account associated with that email address.

You receive the “1 user failed to be added” message so that you can acknowledge our warning message that “Groups and Folders selection, as well as User Settings for existing Box users, will be available after the user(s) accept their invite.”

Resolution Steps

After receiving the initial error message "1 user failed to be added", ignore the error message and press the Save button again. Saving a second time will begin the invitation process.

For more details please see this article. 

Thanks for posting!