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I was logged into my account and uploaded a file to a requested folder link. However, when I got the upload confirmation email, it added my name to into the file name. I needed to have it named in a specific way and didn’t think it would add my name to then end of the file name.
Does this happen automatically?
A student of mine that she received a request from a client to upload a file to Dropbox. She said that Dropbox was by default changing the filename she uploaded by adding her name to the file. The problem is that her client had precise instructions for how files were to be named. By adding her name, she appeared to be going against her client's wishes. I suggested a workaround, where she'd set up a Dropbox account, upload the file there and invite her client to retrieve it there, thus avoiding having Dropbox mess with the filename.
Dropbox is causing unnecessary grief with this default setting. But the workaround is viable.
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