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unable to change e-mail address

  • January 13, 2026
  • 1 reply
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My current email address will expire next month. I tried updating it through Account setting → Link personal email.

However it failed and showed an error message ‘There was an error while trying to add ~~~@~~~ to your account’

 

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Rona Box
  • Community Manager
  • January 14, 2026

Hi ​@t-yamane

Welcome to Box Community, and we’ll help regarding your error message. 

 

In order to investigate your error message while updating your primary email address. I opened a new case and a member from the Box Product Support team will reach out to you shortly. 

 

Please keep an eye out and we’ll be in touch.