You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Forum Discussion
File Request - Please provide an option to NOT rename our uploaded files
We receive tons of file submissions from our business partners daily. However, a large part of the time I spend managing these submissions is spent renaming the files because they're automatically pr...
Hi everyone,
We are very happy to let you all know that the ability to remove the Dropbox username from a file name when submitting a File Request is now available.
When creating the File Request, simply click on the trashcan icon next to the "Sender's name" field to remove this from the incoming files.
We know that a lot of you have been very keen to see this feature added and we hope it now makes using File Requests a little bit easier for you all.
Thank you for you patience getting to here and for choosing Dropbox!
Have a great day!
Graham
Dropbox is changing the filenames of files that someone is uploading through a "file request" to my Dropbox. However, these files need to link to an index file and by changing the names it breaks the link so I don't want it to rename them. Can you tell me how to stop Dropbox from renaming files automatically putting the name of the person uploading into the filename? This is driving me mad.
Mark
Super User II
Super User III'm afraid if you are using File Uploads there is no way to stop this.
A work around would be to use a Shared Folder with the other person, or, them to upload everything as 1 zip file which you then unzip and get everything out of.
You should tell people before they send out a file request that the files will be renamed. No on expects that, and once you have received hundreds of files with mangled names it's too late.
I've just encountered the same thing. This is absolutly crazy.
- Daphne
Dropbox Staff
Hey there, just wanted to drop in here!
We do have a post in our dedicated area of the Community here suggesting an option to disable renaming for uploads through file requests.
If you'd like to show your support for this, please visit the post linked above and give it an upvote. You can even share any additional thoughts by commenting underneath too.
Hope this helps!
