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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.
I don't really think I need to explain details of this request yet again as many of your users have been asking this for years. Don't really understand why this is so hard for you to do...
- Jane
Dropbox Staff
Well, that's a step up. The original answer was "that doesn't cause any problems you dummies."
- Yeah, that's a progress. But we decided just to move on and are not considering Dropbox as a part of our pipeline anymore.
I've been waiting for years for this one also.. I just can't understand why the tool does not have the ability to set a custom value here. You can 'move' the hard-coded name, but that isn't a very fun solution. I really just HATE the naming convention - parenthesis are for functions.. it drives me crazy to just LOOK at those names.
Spaces... and Parens... truly an astounding choice for a mandatory folder name. Please fix this, spaces and parens have no place in folder or file names in any kind of serious business environment.
I also need to rename the dropbox for business folder without a space. None of our scripts work with dropbox for business. Dear Product Owner in charge of features I empower you to prioritize this change request, sincerely, Voice of the customer.
You know honestly I don’t think anyone in dropbox cares
Why does the business/team name need to be included at all for those of us who use Dropbox Business as our only DB account?
I suppose DB doesn't care about this problem because their target clientele are spreadsheet pushers, but they need to understand that the decision as to which cloud providers can/should be used within an organization often falls to those of us who encounter this issue.
- Fiona
Thank you all so much for your feedback.
All the posts in this thread are reviewed, however there is no update I can add to this.
Just wanted to let you know we make sure your feedback is reported to our devs.
Thanks for upvoting this request.
