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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!
Why is this forum topic marked "SOLVED"? The symlink workaround is not a sufficiant solution. This is not solved.
Rich
Super User II
Super User IIThere 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".
- RichSolved doesn't necessarily mean that the concern has been solved to everyone's satisfaction. It's also used as a way to pin the most relevant reply, in this case, from a Dropboxer, to the top of the page for everyone to see.
This problem isn't solved. Its not a bug - its a fundamental design flaw.
Inability to rename folder -> problem for developers and many others.
This thread is long and old enough to show that many Business customers don't just want, but require this feature. Bottom line still exists - DropBox is unusable for my business and many others.
I don't fault any single developer working on DropBox, it is a generally great product. But not realizing spaces and special characters break build paths when the collective development leads came up with this naming plan... there is absolutely no excuse for that. None.
