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
How do I stop changes to filename when files uploaded using the file request function?
Yesterday, I tested a new file request that I set up. The uploaded file had my dropbox user name added as a prefix to the filename. I expected to get around 350 files uploaded from about 80 different people. If I proceed with this file request, I would have to rename all the filenames. It is very important that the beginning of the filename isn't changed and is able to be sorted into ascending order for the file request to be useful to me.
I did checkout some previous messages, dating back to 2015 with the same issue. Saying that there was no solution to this issue. It seems like the assumption that everyone wants to know who sent the file.
A possible solution would be to add three options to have the the username
- added as a prefix
- added as a suffix
- or not added at all
I hope this can be resolved, so I can use the File Request feature.
Rich
Super User II
Super User II
K-DB wrote:
How do I stop changes to filename when files uploaded using the file request function?
There is no setting to prevent that from happening, or to change how it's renamed.
That's what I thought, this just means that the File Transfer function is totally useless for the task I had planned to use it for as I don’t want to have to rename 350 files.
Is there any process for requesting a review or change to File Transfer function?Is there any other way to get files put into DropBox from a large number of people without a DropBox account where the file name remains the same?
