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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.
Any updates on this?
All my scripts give error messages like - `/Users/name/Dropbox/My: bad interpreter: No such file or directory` where my paths have been changed by Dropbox to `/Users/name/Dropbox/My Mac(name.local)/Desktop/...`. This is so annoying that Dropbox will mess up with the paths. I regret having to pay for so much inconvenience.
No updates that I'm aware of, and so I'm still avoiding Dropbox business. It's a shame for them - because they are losing income from me since I would pay for Dropbox business, but instead I use the free personal Dropbox.
My understanding is they don't consider a space in the folder name an issue at all, and aren't planning on fixing it. Stupid move.
CJ
