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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.
Oh yeah and Dropbox..... Sync let's me use D:\Sync with no problems, also supports 5 million files on the account, 100,000 on a folder, selective sync and the folder name is smaller to boot (windows 150 characters folder/sub path name limit), if my mother dough trick stops working I'm jumping ship to that faster than I can uninstall Dropbox on all my machines, just a heads up you might want to fix this soon
Thanks so much, XionicFire. If I ever decide to go back to Dropbox business I will definitely use these tricks to get rid of the $#%$^&^% space in the foldername.
CJ
