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Can you remove the space in the dropbox folder name ("Dropbox (Company-Name)")?
I'm using my companies business dropbox account. And it created a folder called "Dropbox (my companies name here)".
Is there a way to remove the space between "Dropbox" and "("? I don't want to have a space in the path. So the folder name will become "Dropbox-Company" or "Dropbox_Company" or something, but not space.
It seems impossible.
Hi all,
Unfortunately, it's not possible to change the name of Dropbox folder, as many of you have discovered.
If you are using it for scripts then the best thing would firstly to parse the info.json and grab the path from there. The JSON is located:
Mac/Linux:
~/.dropbox/info.json
Windows will be one of these two paths:
%APPDATA%\Dropbox\info.json
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Dropbox\info.json
I say this as if you were to move your Dropbox folder at anytime then this would, of course, break any paths that explicitly referenced an exact folder path.
On a side note, spaces within file paths shouldn't cause issues within scripts, it's fairly normal to have some spaces in there, just ensure your path string is correctly formatted and your script should be fine.
Seriously. This causes us so many unnecessary problems.
They can't just change it by default because it would affect many users who don't care about this. The solution here is to allow us to modify the name of the folder. Based on how other programs work I'd say separating "Location" and "Folder Name" would be fine...
Location
Default: C:/Users/<Username>
Folder Name
Default: Dropbox (<Personal, Work, Other>)
I think this is a big issue but it's been more than a year now since this was posted...
Adding my +1 for fixing this problem.
I'm pretty shocked that this is something Dropbox went ahead with in the 1st instance. I'm going to try the symlink work-around mentioned here, but otherwise it just rendered my corproate account pointless.
Can't. Believe. They. Did. This.
I cannot use Dropbox for software development if I try to connect two accounts, say a personal and a business account. This is because for some reason Dropbox demands to use a space in the forced folder name "Dropbox (Personal)" or "Dropbox (Business)". The software I use, which millions of developers use, QT.IO cannot accept a space in the foldername and I cannot change it myself as far as I can tell. So I have to revert to a single account with a folder named "Dropbox."
How about "Dropbox-Personal" and "Dropbox-Business" instead? Or let us decide, or make it easier to tell us how to change it if it can be changed now...
Same here. I need to run Batch-files inside my Dropbox. But because of the space between the "name" and "dropbox" it won't work.
There needs to be an option to change this.
- Walter
Dropbox Staff
Hey there vedentis - sorry to hear about this.
As this is not currently an option, I'm passing your comments along to the team for consideration - thank you for your feedback! I am also moving the post under the "Share an Idea" section so other users can find and upvote it too.
If there's anything else I can do, please let me know.
True.
I took me a couple of hours to work around this in my batch files. I think Dropbox needs to consider that nowadays programmers and companies use dropbox to share like portable apps, batch files etc and keep those in sync over the team.
Maybe this wasn't thought of in the beginning. but as time changes so do the needs of the users.
First and foremost, Dropbox should ask users changing to business that the folder name will be changing. And it should ask for its new name. Also placing an underscore instead of space would make things a lot easier for many users.
This process of changing to business messed up my PC from the beginning. making my dropbox unusable and I needed to redownload my whole 300GB. So my PC was working a couple of hours until I could use it again.
So there is a lot of improvement necessary and since I read about this issue in several threads, some years old, I wonder why there has been no solution to this already?
It's a paid product!!!
I still have the same prolbem. My scripts don't work! What can I do on linux?
It has been 1.5 years and the problem still persists. Fixing this should not be so hard, eh? It's really frustrating when an application forces you to a specific pattern/naming/setting.
The choice of the folder name for my Dropbox files should be MY choice and not anybody else's. Forcing someone else's standards or preferences on me is archaic and obnoxious. The same applies to the horrible "Program Files (x86)". I don't care what you call the folder on your side, but on my system I decide.
I am glad I read this before I tried Dropbox for Business. I will now advise all my clients to look for other alternatives until users are allowed to rename all of their folders at will.
They can send a man to the moon, but they can't let ... oh wait, they can't send a man to the moon anymore :slight_frown:
Hey team,
I also vote for this feature - it's really invonvenient to be stuck with that space in the directory name. Come on, let us choose the directory name, is it that hard?
**bleep**, it is 2017 and we cannot get a simple change to the code done in ~2 years? This is eding on ridiculous given that it breaks nothing and seems more like a stance of the developers to *not* do any work just for the sake of not doing any work.
It is sad, Dropbox client works better than alternatives, but not being able to change the default name of the root folder just does it for me. I wanted to move from OneDrive precisely because of that and now I will just move to my own hosted cloud storage ... no money from me ...
