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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, option 3 I forgot (it's been too long lol)
This is how I got to make all my users have no space back in the day, not sure if it still works but worth a shot, download an old offline installer version of Dropbox from before they added the space, select folder location you want, create the dropbox(company) decoy folder and deny everyone access to it, run the installer and install with your user, Dropbox will upgrade the client version but be unable to rename the folder because it has no permissions, and you are good to go, once you have your "mother dough" upgraded Dropbox install folders (appdata) you can just copy and install as normal on any machines you need this done and the location will stick forever
Again as I said not sure if it still works but its worth a shot, I'm sure I kept a copy of the last Dropbox offline installer version that allowed this somewhere, if enough people need it I can look for it and tell you the version so you can web search for old files and download it, or worst case I can upload it to my dropbox and share it
Hope this helps
This is how I got to make all my users have no space back in the day, not sure if it still works but worth a shot, download an old offline installer version of Dropbox from before they added the space, select folder location you want, create the dropbox(company) decoy folder and deny everyone access to it, run the installer and install with your user, Dropbox will upgrade the client version but be unable to rename the folder because it has no permissions, and you are good to go, once you have your "mother dough" upgraded Dropbox install folders (appdata) you can just copy and install as normal on any machines you need this done and the location will stick forever
Again as I said not sure if it still works but its worth a shot, I'm sure I kept a copy of the last Dropbox offline installer version that allowed this somewhere, if enough people need it I can look for it and tell you the version so you can web search for old files and download it, or worst case I can upload it to my dropbox and share it
Hope this helps
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
