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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 Business. Although I now only have one dropbox folder, it is still called "Dropbox (Personal)" - it did not automatically change back when the accounts were unlinked.
How do I get Dropbox to change the name back?
Unlink the DB app from your account, rename the folder, relink the DB app (do not use previous settings when prompted).
Symbolic links to a directory doesn't help since OS X file open dialog converts these into the "official" name when you click through the symlink.
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Thats a complete and total fail on the part of OSX
Same here - biggest pain with added spaces in the folder name (i.e. existing LabVie .exe files does not allow for it...)
The easiest solution was to create a virtual drive and point to the folder by running cmd:
C:\>subst b: "C:\Users\Jonathan\Dropbox (Company)"
I'm having trouble with this issue as well. I'm writing markdown documents in Mou, and I can't point to an image file in dropbox because it can't handle the spaces or parenthesis that are in the name of the root folder. Any word of fixing this?
- Rich
Super User II
We don't need multiple threads for the same issue (or duplicate replies on both). To continue discussing this please refer to the following thread:
Thank you.
Adi S. : you did it wrong, it worked for me just now.
That works nicely. Thanks.
I agree about the OS X behavior being wrong.
Technically, no, there isn't. Dropbox will always use a space and parenthesis in the name for team accounts. However, see the response from a Dropboxer in the following post for a possible workaround.
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Will must say that was interesting to find out, and in essence means YES you can rename the folder to ANY name (I just did) as long as you establish a symbolic link folder using the DROPBOX (BIZ NAME) (or personal etc) to point to that location. (I moved and renamed mine)
I wonder if this is something DB had to work on to perform, IE detect its a symbolic link and follow it, or if the Notification service resolves this to the truepath on enrolling?
to Cody B.
look this discussion page:
There are a few methods for it. One of them is the one I did and solved my problem.
I have a much better solution. I have over 50GB of data in my dropbox. So even the solution where I reinstall to get the default folder name wasn't acceptable to me. So I found a great work around. Just create a symbolic "hard link". I had never used one before, but it's supported but all windows, linux and mac. Here is how I created the link:
1) Open a cmd prompt as admin. (Search for cmd.exe, right click and then click run as administrator)
2) Execute: mklink /J "C:\Dropbox" "C:\Dropbox (Personal)"
Now you can use "C:\Dropbox" (or whatever location you decided on) to interact with the same files as if you had typed in C:\Dropbox (Personal). All software and programs will now treat it as if the folder were located there :) The best part is that this solution is easy, fast and doesn't have any downsides.
Trouble is that some development tools do not honor the links. I'm for example working with some Node projects and running into troubles with this. The tools are not using the linked name, instead they figure out the actual path on disk and use that. This is a problem, because some of these tools have problems with the parenthesis and/or spaces in the directory names.
So far the only thing that only thing that has really worked is the good old subst command. For example:
subst p: "C:\users\juhap\Dropbox (Personal)"\proj
creates another drive P: which ponts directly to the proj folder on my Dropbox. This however is not a perfect solution, since this does not work on the Windows 10 subsystem for Linux.
I would really appreciate if Dropbox provided a proper solution to this. Would not need to be anything complicated, just some way of setting the actual folder name to whatever user likes.
