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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.
- Rich
Super User II
Exit the Dropbox app. Make a note of the current Dropbox folder name and rename it to what you need it to be. Create a symbolic link to the newly renamed folder name using the name it previous had. Restart the Dropbox client.
This is a solution that was posted by a Dropboxer a little over a week ago, but that does not mean that it's a supported solution. Simply put, you're on your own to get it to work and there's no guarantee that it will always work with future updates.
I recommend creating a hard link instead of a symbolic link. Unfortunately, a lot of apps still choke on symlinks.
ln "~/Your Company Name Dropbox" ~/Dropbox
**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 ...
it is honestly stupid that developers do not listen to their customers (end users) --- it is a trivial fix, not something that woudl require a major redevelopment. But yes, it does require testing and admission of guilt and that is the reason why we will not see this change ...
Any progress on this? It basically does not allow me to use any scripts on the dropbox folder.
MariedbDropbox Staff
Hi there!
There is currently no way of doing this as it would change the path of your Dropbox account.
However, I will make sure to pass your feedback along to our engineering team so that they can take your comments into account in the future development of the app.
Many thanks again for using Dropbox :)
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?
Well yes and no.
I certainly hope it is a trivial fix and it does look like one, but it could easily be quite complex. The devil is in the details.
The big takeway for me is that this forum was setup so we could flag and sicuss issues like this. Yet after two years there has been zero action and not even (as far as I know) any insight from Dropbox.
Even if they said "We hear you but we can't fix this becuase its gonna requie a ton of extra QA", I'd be quite satisfied with that.
Dropbox went to a lot of trouble to solicit feedback but they clearly don't care enough to follow-up on what they started.
workaround for me on Windows 10 is : mklink \J Dropbox_CO "Dropbox (CO)"
Dropbox sort it out, this issue has so many potential issues and is an easy fix. Raised in August 2015!! Either replace the spaces with another character or give the user control.
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...
