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Is it possible to rename the Dropbox folder to Dropbox instead of Dropbox (Personal)?
I want to get rid of (Personal) in my dropbox root folder now that I've stopped using Dropbox business. "Jane" gives a great desription of how to change it on my mac, on this page: https://www.dropb...
Jay
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHello- I followed these instructions and the (Personal) is still appended to my Dropbox directory. Please advise. I really don't want to spend the time waiting for dropbox to download all my cloud sync files, move the files the directory, rename it the directory, move all the files back, and wait for it to sync again.
Hi survivestyle,
Probably you haven't unlinked the application from your account in a proper way. The reinstall can NOT break the application link; it's not part of the installation, but part of the configuration. One alternative is wipe out the entire configuration. If you use "Selective Sync" or other local settings, specific for the device, keep them on safe (screenshot, for example), so gonna be possible restore at the end. Execute on your Mac following in terminal:
rm -rf ~/.dropbox
Now, it's like you have never installed Dropbox application (more precise - like you just have installed it, but not used yet). Run the application, link it to your account, and put the syncing on pause. Hopefully, you have now Dropbox folder named just "Dropbox" in process of syncing. To speed up the sync, move/copy your old content and release the sync. Will need some time to reindex and ... done! 😉
If you prefer resync everything anew, skip the pausing-releasing the sync and copying the old content; just let it sync.
Hope this can help you.
OMG, thank you so much! This solved it!
What if I deleted the business account already, so I cannot disconnect my personal account from the already non-existent business account?
- Jay
Why can't Dropbox team develop a simple 'rename' function? Why do you force root folder names upon us, in particular with sapces. With spaces in your imposed folder names Dropbox is incompatible with plenty of software. All for the sake of a simple "F2" folder rename function.
I had a dropbox (personal) & (Myfamily). The Myfamily userid has been compromised &I deleted it. How can i remove personal from te dropbox name? I don't have a business accout and am not sure how I ended up with the 2 dropboxes in te first place.
Thanks
- Jay
Hi Bigalk, thanks for posting today!
If you want to rename the personal Dropbox folder, you’ll need to unlink the personal and work accounts (the work account being the Myfamily account).
You can unlink them using the steps here. Afterwards, a reboot of the computer would help.
Let me know how it goes!
Jay,
Thanks for your help. I was unable to get rid of the Dropbox (Personal) . The (Myfamily) is not connected and I was able to remove all data from it and remove it from my PC. My main concern was my ID on the Dropbox (Myfamily) was hacked and I want to make sure that there is no relationship between the 2 IDs. I don't know if my other ID still has a dropbox.
Thanks,
Al
