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change my dropbox folder name on my PC
I have my dropbox folder in the D drive of my computer. For some reason, the dropbox folder is not named "D:\Dropbox", but "D:\Dropbox (Elliotfan)" with my account name together. Does anybody know ho...
Hi Emilio,
I can only confirm what Rich already pointed out.
Dropbox for Business will allow you to access both your personal Dropbox and your work Dropbox from the same computer. To help signify which Dropbox folder is connected to which account, we've chosen to rename the business Dropbox to "Dropbox (business name)." Currently, there is not a way to change the name of this folder back to just "Dropbox".
By default, we place a hidden symlink from Dropbox to the new Dropbox (team name), so you may find that your applications can continue working by accessing this symlink.
However, if this does not work for you, and if you are comfortable creating symbolic links on your machine, there is a workaround that may help you. Please note that this workaround is not supported by our support team, so if you are unable to set up this environment, I'd recommend that instead of using this workaround, you move any files needed by your affected application out of your Dropbox folder instead.
If outside code sources don't cooperate with the space character or parenthesis character, the simplest workaround would be the following:
- pause Dropbox
- remove the hidden symlink at Dropbox
- Rename the "Dropbox (team name)" folder to Dropbox
- Place a symlink at "Dropbox (team name)" that points to "Dropbox"
- Resume syncingThis will allow Dropbox to continue accessing the content through the symlink, and it will allow any external code to use the "Dropbox" folder pathname that doesn't include the additional characters in the path.
I hope this helps!
Sofia, I followed your instructions to change "My Dropbox" to "Dropbox" (to match my other computer, browser links etc)
When I restarted dropbox on my pc, it displayed an error window:
Your ..folder has been moved.. will not work until you move it back. ..
to link again to download and restore from the web version, click "Relink".
After clicking "Relink" ALL my files were downloaded to C:\Users...\Dropbox
Lucky that I noticed this as the original files were now orphans!
The good news - there is a "move" command in the dropbox (Dropbox icon > 'gear' icon > Preferences > Account)
I moved it back to D:\Dropbox which is all I wanted in the first place.
