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Can you remove the space in the dropbox folder name ("Dropbox (Company-Name)")?
I'm using my companies business dropbox account. And it created a folder called "Dropbox (my companies name here)".
Is there a way to remove the space between "Dropbox" and "("? I don't want to ha...
Hi all,
Unfortunately, it's not possible to change the name of Dropbox folder, as many of you have discovered.
If you are using it for scripts then the best thing would firstly to parse the info.json and grab the path from there. The JSON is located:
Mac/Linux:
~/.dropbox/info.json
Windows will be one of these two paths:
%APPDATA%\Dropbox\info.json
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Dropbox\info.json
I say this as if you were to move your Dropbox folder at anytime then this would, of course, break any paths that explicitly referenced an exact folder path.
On a side note, spaces within file paths shouldn't cause issues within scripts, it's fairly normal to have some spaces in there, just ensure your path string is correctly formatted and your script should be fine.
As a work around.. you can create a virtual drive pointing to a folder in drop box.. so instead of the path being D:/dropbox (Personal)/myfolder.. the virtual drive would create a pointer and you would be able to use Z:/myfolder..
This gets you around the issue of the space and the parentheses.. atleast in some cases..
Hi, ChrisLeathers.
I appreciate your trying to help, but having another alias or a mapped drive to the folder with the space doesn't help the main issue. When backing up or transferring info to any unix-based operating system or website, the space is problematic. While a few programs that cannot access the folder with a space may be able to find the file with a mapped drive, those would be few and far between, relying upon the same operating system that allows the space. Otherwise, the program must use a %20 in place of the space.
Besides - it is just plain poor design to put spaces in filenames or foldernames.
I 100% agree that its totally mind boggling how they could ignore this request for years.. and I totally agree that it should be fixed.. But for some people, like in my case for vfx work with a remote team.. using the virtual drive letter trick to point to a subfolder, could save them.. but yes, its annoying and should be unnecessary... My vote is for "dropbox_personal", and "dropbox_custom"
