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Brain-dead linked-account renaming scheme doesn't reverse when unlinking

Brain-dead linked-account renaming scheme doesn't reverse when unlinking

Thomas B.69
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My personal dropbox suggested I link my corporate account, at which time it did something totally user-hostile, that is, it just went ahead and renamed my Dropbox to "Dropbox (personal)". So now wherever I had terminal scripts that referenced this directory, buh bye, they're dead. 


Not only that but on the mac, that directory cannot be entered into from zsh. From ~ you literally cannot "cd Dropbox" even though a simlink is there..... to the wrong directory!

This is a terrible design choice. I get that Dropbox makes money from corporates, but I pay for my personal account (2TB) and I absolutely do not want my corporate account to MESS with my personal one, which is much more important to me. Moreover, I'm a consultant that changes employers every year or so. Imagine the mess. 

Why can't they just leave plain old "Dropbox" there, and then create a new "Dropbox (corpo-name)". 

Moreover, unlinking the accounts, doesn't revert everything back to how it used to be. What a mess. Seriously gonna leave Dropbox. 

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Walter
Dropbox Staff

Hey @Thomas B.69, thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts on this with us. 

 

Your feedback has been logged into our system - please let us know if you have anything else to add. 

 

If there's any issue you'd like to troubleshoot, don't hesitate to let us know too.

 

Thanks! 


Walter
Community Moderator @ Dropbox
dropbox.com/support


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