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New named Dropbox structure
I am a user of DropBox Business, on Windows 10.
Last week, I suddenly realized that the shortcuts to some of my Dropbox folders were broken.
A quick look learned me that the structure had changed...
Hi,
I work for a small organization with only 10 staff members. We run statistical code that all of us share, so our file path names are important and have to remain stable. Last night, all of our computers changed the file path names from "C:\Dropbox (Enrollment Research)\" to "C:\Enrollment Research Dropbox\Staff Name\," which breaks everything.
How can we get our file paths to go back to the simpler version?
Thanks!
frances
I need to know this as well. It broke all of our links in our job tickets. There are thousands of tickets that we would need to change because of this.
Thank you for responding and letting me know that it's not just us!
I've been looking online, and it appears that if you log into Dropbox online and go to All Files, you can tell Dropbox to move the shared folders out from under your name, which puts them back in the C:\Dropbox\ path instead of including your name. The name of our main Dropbox folder has changed, so we'll still need to update all of our code, but at least we won't have to add our names to each path every time any of us needs to use code.
Good luck!
- Rich
Super User II
FrancesERA wrote:
Last night, all of our computers changed the file path names from "C:\Dropbox (Enrollment Research)\" to "C:\Enrollment Research Dropbox\Staff Name\," which breaks everything.
This is due to your Business team being upgraded. Your team admin would have been notified prior to the change. You can read more about it here:
Once your team has been upgraded, there is no going back to the former folder structure. Your team admin could have postponed it for 30 days, but once upgraded, it's done.
Yea, no, you cannot keep putting off the migration.
I knew about it. But there was nothing, ultimately, we could do to stop it EXCEPT dropping Business and going to paid personal with shared folders, which negates a lot of the Business management side of things.
The OTHER issue was their changing everything to Cloud-based rather than on the device. Holy crap, this messed up things. My ability to search through my folders depends on the files being on the device, and multiple devices still haven't fully synced (despite forcing everything to be offline).
And, yes, I probably should have noticed this change and acted accordingly.
Here's the rub, though—I chose DropBox because it was a simple, streamlined, and accessible file sharing service that integrated into my devices' file browser directly.
Now DropBox is trying to be the one Cloud-business product to rule them all, with tasks and project management and all this other rubbish I get elsewhere from more industry-specific or otherwise-superior products.
I have DropBox for file sharing. It used to be the best in simplicity, features, and cost.
Now, it's screwing up it's file sharing, making it worse, making it more complicated, and trying to add services I DO NOT WANT or CARE about.
If I wanted NetDocuments or some Oracle file-sharing junk I'd do that. Hell, I could roll up some Amazon AWS sharing solutions using S3 Buckets if I really was hard up for cheap, complex, and multi-faceted file-sharing solutions.
But I'm not. I want something simple, easy, and that laypeople can use (and that I don't have to spend a bunch of time managing, because while I *could* with the IT background I have, that is *not* my job now—I am now the owner of a professional services company, and I want to wear my IT hat as little as possible.)
It's a shame. I chose Dropbox over Box.com early when I began my company, and I have been wondering lately if that was a mistake.
Ironically, because of OTHER services my company uses, we have access to Google Drive and MS OneDrive. We kept Dropbox because it was still the best at integrated into our local file systems, and syncing simply.
However, Dropbox's recent "upgrades," which add no real functionality as far as I can tell, and only made things worse, have me looking at migrating to these other solutions. (I may still give Box.com a chance, too, but that will cost more—not a lot, but more than what we have with Dropbox—and I already have the Google and MS solutions as part of other plans. We just don't use them at the moment.)
It's a real shame. Still, change is inevitable I suppose . . .
Dropbox should stop chasing Enterprise-do-it-all Rainbows and focus on their core product, and making improvements based on that. Instead, their core product keeps getting worse . . .
