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sunspots
Helpful | Level 7
2 years ago

File Request - Please provide an option to NOT rename our uploaded files

We receive tons of file submissions from our business partners daily. However, a large part of the time I spend managing these submissions is spent renaming the files because they're automatically pr...
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  • Graham's avatar
    Graham
    2 years ago

    Hi everyone,

     

    We are very happy to let you all know that the ability to remove the Dropbox username from a file name when submitting a File Request is now available. 

     

    When creating the File Request, simply click on the trashcan icon next to the "Sender's name" field to remove this from the incoming files.

     

     

     

    We know that a lot of you have been very keen to see this feature added and we hope it now makes using File Requests a little bit easier for you all. 

     

    Thank you for you patience getting to here and for choosing Dropbox!

     

    Have a great day!

    Graham

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MichaelTian
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

Dropbox appends uploader's NAME to the file names automatically when when upload files from File Request function. Please provide us an option of not appending client's name to the File Request function. We often receive hundreds of uploaded files through "File Request" feature and we need to maintain the uploaded files original names. 

 

Please review and modify the program.

 

Thanks,

Michael

  • Teamchil's avatar
    Teamchil
    Explorer | Level 4
    3 years ago

    Please let us opt out of DropBox changing the file names. This a huge Direction to our workflow. As you know software recognizes file names and when someone upload something it gets changed and therefore we have to spend time to change all the files needlessly because DropBox added to them. 

  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
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    3 years ago

    This idea is going to need some additional support before we can share it with our team.

     

    I've updated the status to encourage more users to back it up!

  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
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    3 years ago

    Thank you for your idea, while we can’t take every idea forward we do regularly re-review and will update you if anything changes!

  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
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    2 years ago
    This idea has been closed as it has reached the end of the Share an Idea process.
     
    Thank you for your suggestion, and if you have another idea to share, please do! 

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