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change my dropbox folder name on my PC
I have my dropbox folder in the D drive of my computer. For some reason, the dropbox folder is not named "D:\Dropbox", but "D:\Dropbox (Elliotfan)" with my account name together. Does anybody know ho...
Hi Emilio,
I can only confirm what Rich already pointed out.
Dropbox for Business will allow you to access both your personal Dropbox and your work Dropbox from the same computer. To help signify which Dropbox folder is connected to which account, we've chosen to rename the business Dropbox to "Dropbox (business name)." Currently, there is not a way to change the name of this folder back to just "Dropbox".
By default, we place a hidden symlink from Dropbox to the new Dropbox (team name), so you may find that your applications can continue working by accessing this symlink.
However, if this does not work for you, and if you are comfortable creating symbolic links on your machine, there is a workaround that may help you. Please note that this workaround is not supported by our support team, so if you are unable to set up this environment, I'd recommend that instead of using this workaround, you move any files needed by your affected application out of your Dropbox folder instead.
If outside code sources don't cooperate with the space character or parenthesis character, the simplest workaround would be the following:
- pause Dropbox
- remove the hidden symlink at Dropbox
- Rename the "Dropbox (team name)" folder to Dropbox
- Place a symlink at "Dropbox (team name)" that points to "Dropbox"
- Resume syncingThis will allow Dropbox to continue accessing the content through the symlink, and it will allow any external code to use the "Dropbox" folder pathname that doesn't include the additional characters in the path.
I hope this helps!
Stefanie
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHi Emilio,
I can only confirm what Rich already pointed out.
Dropbox for Business will allow you to access both your personal Dropbox and your work Dropbox from the same computer. To help signify which Dropbox folder is connected to which account, we've chosen to rename the business Dropbox to "Dropbox (business name)." Currently, there is not a way to change the name of this folder back to just "Dropbox".
By default, we place a hidden symlink from Dropbox to the new Dropbox (team name), so you may find that your applications can continue working by accessing this symlink.
However, if this does not work for you, and if you are comfortable creating symbolic links on your machine, there is a workaround that may help you. Please note that this workaround is not supported by our support team, so if you are unable to set up this environment, I'd recommend that instead of using this workaround, you move any files needed by your affected application out of your Dropbox folder instead.
If outside code sources don't cooperate with the space character or parenthesis character, the simplest workaround would be the following:
- pause Dropbox
- remove the hidden symlink at Dropbox
- Rename the "Dropbox (team name)" folder to Dropbox
- Place a symlink at "Dropbox (team name)" that points to "Dropbox"
- Resume syncing
This will allow Dropbox to continue accessing the content through the symlink, and it will allow any external code to use the "Dropbox" folder pathname that doesn't include the additional characters in the path.
I hope this helps!
This is not solved, but Dropbox needs to solve it (and mark it unsolved until then). To be clear, all that is absolutely needed is a checkbox for 'compatible dropbox naming' which will switch the space for an underscore and remove the parentheses. Of course it would be lovely to have full control of naming, but for the time being can you just stop your software breaking our computers please? Unbelievable that you've been promoting an unsupported workaround for over two years rather than just fixing this.
LOL at DropBox's latest redesign. Its cool, I guess... Martketing ploy. Most design media is mixed reviews, majority negative. Looks like it cost a lot of money, but doesn't have legs. A little Brutalism mixed with a few other shot term trends... Feels like some high level director was pressured to attempt to generate new business in new markets. Whomever was in charge of that **bleep**show def shat the bed on that one.
What would actually be cool is if you listened to your product team and simply let people rename their f*ng dropbox folders. So they don't have spaces and special characters.
That is literally all we want. No symlinks. Let us rename our folders. BOOM! Problem solved!
That would change everything. But you didn't prioritize that. Instead you launched a visual campaign that will be stale in 14-30days. I'm already over it. Its juvenile design at best. Screams style over function... childish, desperate. Ugh.
As a Dropbox user since Day 1 - PLEASE- stick to product design. And get it right. I've paid you at leat 3-5k a year by my books for almost ten years. I loved you, but you suck now! Sync.com is kicking your asses feature-wise up and down the court. The measly 15-20 Pro accounts I switched off DropBox to Sync might not mean **bleep** to whomever is reading this. But if you did care, you'd try to do a little better. Which you aren't. So.... yeah. **bleep** shame. Dropbox had every opportunity to not be an outdated and out performanced tool. Which is exactly what it is now.
Why is this forum topic marked "SOLVED"? The symlink workaround is not a sufficiant solution. This is not solved.
- Rich
Super User II
There is nothing to solve. Dropbox is working as intended.Having a space in the folder name (even when using symlinks) causes huge problems with certain pacakge managers like composer and other tools like Kubernetes if you keep your project files in Dropbox. Requiring folder names to have spaces (and parens for that matter) is hugely problematic for developers and software engineers.
Rich wrote:
There is nothing to solve. Dropbox is working as intended.I agree that Dropbox is working as intended but everyone on this thread has indicated that the intended behavior is unsatisfactory and should be changed. I have not seen any response in this thread from Dropbox indicating that this will never be changed, therefore this is not "solved".
Hallelujah! Thank you, Stefanie! Just what I needed.
