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Vincent M.9
10 years agoNew member | Level 1
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...
- 8 years ago
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.
bill-1234
Helpful | Level 6
Dropbox has by now proven that they no longer care about the file synchronizing product. They don't care if it continues to work, they don't care if it is suitable for any particular use case. In particular, they don't care if Dropbox works for anything other than low-skill point-and-click. It is not a professional tool.
cjrhoads
3 years agoHelpful | Level 6
I agree, bill-1234
Dropbox has now implemented SO MANY features that "break" existing applications and confuse people to no end that I wonder if they truly understand why people use Dropbox.
If I wanted to use GoogleDrive with all its inherent limitations, I wouldn't be using Dropbox.
-I don't want an "app" that opens all of my files in an application that I don't want or need.
-I don't want to be able to watch as someone edits the files that we share.
Dropbox was previously the "dream" cloud storage. It automatically synched files on the back end, did not force you to use cloud space unnecessarily, and left all of your files in their native format.
But NO MORE. Now it opens files in that dreaded dropbox application (Paper or something like that), asks you EVERY TIME to put your photos on the dropbox (which would cause me to pay much more for storage because I have a TON of photos), and is very confusing about which interface is being used (the cloud interface or the local File Explorer interface).
Of course, the personal Dropbox is still better than either Google Drive or OneDrive or iCloud.
But the BUSINESS version of Dropbox - well, I gave up on that when they wouldn't let me eliminate the space. After trying to use it for more than a month I converted all my stuff back to the personal version. (And I needed technical support for that, so kudos to the technical support team at Dropbox for being willing to help me out.)
So that's what I suggest you do. I've found that the Business version of Dropbox doesn't give you anything that the personal version doesn't. I still have teams and share my folders with teams. I just have to manage each shared folder individually instead of having an over-bloated application to manage the teams.
- themaybeblock3 years agoCollaborator | Level 8
What I want to know is what developer thought putting spaces in base directory paths was a smart thing from the very beginning? When I had to join a Dropbox team, it wound up breaking hundreds of links throughout hundreds of After Effects projects in my personal folder. They had to know how this deeply flawed approach could break links all over the place, honestly the incompetence is mind-boggling.
- chrisleathers3 years agoHelpful | Level 5
They were probably trying to be paradime shifting.. without success. But to not have any other options!!? , and not change it for what feels like centuries.. ha ha.. We love you drop box.. but seriously
- cjrhoads3 years agoHelpful | Level 6
It's not like they weren't told. The length, width, and depth of this thread alone should have been a clue.
But they obviously DON'T CARE!!!! They don't care about whether what they sell is actually useful, they just care if they can sell it. Apparently.
- chrisleathers3 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Maybe its like a Y2K bug, and if they change it.. all their code will go up in smoke.. I think they would probably sell more if they fixed it..
- shinbeth2 years agoExperienced | Level 13
The sole reason I never updated to Business plan myself is excatly what you said OP. Business creates a stupid 3-user repository folder which is different vs. the one I'm using now with Pro plan, simply called 'Dropbox'. I do not want a different folder. I do not want a different name (Dropbox-Company-or-Whatever), I do not want 3 user minimum I simply want 1 user. And more TB space! 3TB is way too little. I need at least 10TB.
Google Drive offers 10, 20 and 30TB plans while staying with 1 user and not adding GoogleDrive-Company to it lol
Sadly G Drive interface sucks and I can't leave Dropbox as of yet
Keep making your customers angry Dropbox, when you go bankrupt someone else will make a better cloud service
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