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How do I rename the root folder?
I recently joined Dropbox for Business on a trial basis. As part of the process, it forcefully renames your Dropbox folder to "Dropbox (Personal)". I have since decided not to use Dropbox for Busines...
Unlink the DB app from your account, rename the folder, relink the DB app (do not use previous settings when prompted).
I've just tried the Team Dropbox Account and the Personal changed the name
As i read above and also did, doesn't work to disconnect from Team Account to reset the Personal name to "Dropbox" again.
It has become such a pain. None a single program finds the files because of the name changing and worse, the headache of all headaches. Programs I write and LaTeX reports must have no accents, no spaces and so on, on path and file names.
I'm on a crossfire between, OR rearrange a huge amount of data because libraries and sources are on a specific folder other than the file that use it, OR find the best solution to rename Dropbox.
The UNLINK and RELINK options seems to work fine if Mr. Luis M. is correct.
And WHY?! OH WHY?! Did the Dropbox Team decided that the best way was to change the folder's name without asking me first?
And worse, insert a !damm! space on it? It is like to break the most important rule/constraint of all files and programs I use/write.
DO_NOT_USE_ACCENTS_OR_SPACES_IF_A_PROGRAM_NEEDS_TO_POINT_IT.
I agree - it sucks. I've ben with dropbox over 10 years - since they started really - and they built their business on personal accounts.
Higher management must have prioritized enterpise accounts and pretty much geared all useful settings to be oriented to them instead of to everyone - which would make more sense. I would think this could be a simple category in settings. You login - go to your settings and change your name. It boggles my mind they haven't thought of or considered this. In cats it's not considerate at all really.
I just went through having them merge my account into an eneterpirse account for a company I was freelancing with - I accepted an invited to their team and next thing you know the accounts are merged - doesn'ty make sense it could happen so easily.
The setup was very easy for it to happen - and on the enterprise side - with little warning or hurdles to jump through. Howver, when I contacted support about fixing it - the admin of the company who runs the enterprise version of dropbox had to switch it. Why wouldn't dropbox enpower all of it's users to have this switch in their settings? It feels discrimanatory, not thoughtful and is downright frustrating. If all the other cloud storage systems didn't suck so much I'd definitely switch after this experience. Talkiing to supprt about this was like speaking to a brick wall. Very lame and frustrating.
