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How do I rename the root folder?
I recently joined Dropbox for Business on a trial basis. As part of the process, it forcefully renames your Dropbox folder to "Dropbox (Personal)". I have since decided not to use Dropbox for Business. Although I now only have one dropbox folder, it is still called "Dropbox (Personal)" - it did not automatically change back when the accounts were unlinked.
How do I get Dropbox to change the name back?
Unlink the DB app from your account, rename the folder, relink the DB app (do not use previous settings when prompted).
I've run into many programs that have problems with spaces and parenthesis in file names.
Is there any way to rename the dropbox folders so the names are more Unix/Mac friendly? Something like ~/Dropbox-Personal and ~/Dropbox-Company would be great.
Symbolic links to a directory doesn't help since OS X file open dialog converts these into the "official" name when you click through the symlink.
I need to rename my dropbox for business folder. I just want it to be g:\drobox not g\drobox(BUSINESS NAME). How do I accomplish this?
These solutions are simply very user unfriendly, pleas simply rename button right beside Move button..
Im needing this feature maybe 3 years.. Its not too much, simply possiblity of change one stupid string..
Nexus T.
You cant, the application keeps renaming it back to add the biz name if you did manage it.
(pretty rude of them really, changing folder names on biz customers, but I guess its who cares we have there money already, lets make it nice for the free account!)
Anyway, what you can do is create a symbolic link folder that mimics the original folder name.
(They were meant to do this for you but dont all the time)
If you on a windows machine, perfom a dos shell then in your case type
MKLINK /D "G:\DROPBOX" "G:\DROPBOX (BIZ NAME)"
That will mimic the folder to the name you want (each of the folders is present, but they are the SAME location, so dont go and delete one thinking that you dont need it, as it deletes both)
I've just tried the Team Dropbox Account and the Personal changed the name
As i read above and also did, doesn't work to disconnect from Team Account to reset the Personal name to "Dropbox" again.
It has become such a pain. None a single program finds the files because of the name changing and worse, the headache of all headaches. Programs I write and LaTeX reports must have no accents, no spaces and so on, on path and file names.
I'm on a crossfire between, OR rearrange a huge amount of data because libraries and sources are on a specific folder other than the file that use it, OR find the best solution to rename Dropbox.
The UNLINK and RELINK options seems to work fine if Mr. Luis M. is correct.
And WHY?! OH WHY?! Did the Dropbox Team decided that the best way was to change the folder's name without asking me first?
And worse, insert a !damm! space on it? It is like to break the most important rule/constraint of all files and programs I use/write.
DO_NOT_USE_ACCENTS_OR_SPACES_IF_A_PROGRAM_NEEDS_TO_POINT_IT.
I agree - it sucks. I've ben with dropbox over 10 years - since they started really - and they built their business on personal accounts.
Higher management must have prioritized enterpise accounts and pretty much geared all useful settings to be oriented to them instead of to everyone - which would make more sense. I would think this could be a simple category in settings. You login - go to your settings and change your name. It boggles my mind they haven't thought of or considered this. In cats it's not considerate at all really.
I just went through having them merge my account into an eneterpirse account for a company I was freelancing with - I accepted an invited to their team and next thing you know the accounts are merged - doesn'ty make sense it could happen so easily.
The setup was very easy for it to happen - and on the enterprise side - with little warning or hurdles to jump through. Howver, when I contacted support about fixing it - the admin of the company who runs the enterprise version of dropbox had to switch it. Why wouldn't dropbox enpower all of it's users to have this switch in their settings? It feels discrimanatory, not thoughtful and is downright frustrating. If all the other cloud storage systems didn't suck so much I'd definitely switch after this experience. Talkiing to supprt about this was like speaking to a brick wall. Very lame and frustrating.
Cross Post from this thread: https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/201852169-change-my-dropbox-folder-name-on-my-PC?page=1#community_comment_205768176
New to Dropbox business.
REALLY unfortunate to read through these forums and find these hacky, unsupported workaround answers. Especially after having what I would honestly consider excellent customer support from the Dropbox team helping me strategize and transition all our Pro accounts to a unified Business account.
As a web developer, I finally got all my synching done ( took 2 days to get all synced up, 250gb/700k files ). And today I finally get back into some coding, running into errors left and right - only to track them back to the space in the Dropbox folder name.
So... any other options besides a symlink? That solution is unacceptable for us.
And as a technology company - Dropbox should KNOW BETTER than to force a folder name with spaces AND special characters. That is day one dum dum stuff for anyone who works on a computer for a living. Whomever came up with the brilliant idea of naming a business folder 'Dropbox (Company)' should be let go immediately. My biggest fear is that, developers weren't questioned and some suits and project managers thought it would just 'look pretty' with a space and parens. Ugh.
Will be calling support tomorrow. Without a direct workaround, sorry Dropbox - you've got a good product and great customer support, but you screwed the pooch at the most basic level with this naming convention.
Dave's solution doesn't work (for version 3.8.8).
When relinked, DP creates default C:\User\USERNAME\Dropbox folder.
[windows 7]
Hello
You need to UNLINK your account and then link again.
Dropbox creates a new folder called just "Dropbox" o "My Dropbox" near your old "Dropbox (whatever)".
Active the synchronization in Dropbox say YES if asked you for Sync all the files in your dropbox to this folder
EXIT DROPBOX, move ALL your files from "Dropbox (whatever)" to the new "Dropbox" folder created, then ERASE the all "Dropbox (whatever)".
OPEN DROPBOX and RESUMEN SYNC
Wait until the SYNC is complete.
I discovered this today and I'am doing this right now.
Regards.
The worst thing about this is that if you are sharing a project that needs compiling (like a c++ project) now all of the sudden your path name has a space character in it! Bad practice in programming of any kind. So the link might make sense in this case.
In all my years working with Dropbox, this is the first fail :tired_face:. The value of Dropbox as a platform has been its cross-platform friendliness. PLease please fix this!
- Rich
Super User II
Is there any way to rename the dropbox folders so the names are more Unix/Mac friendly?
Technically, no, there isn't. Dropbox will always use a space and parenthesis in the name for team accounts. However, see the response from a Dropboxer in the following post for a possible workaround.
Unlink the DB app from your account, rename the folder, relink the DB app (do not use previous settings when prompted).
