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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 ha...
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.
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...
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!!!
