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Padraigincanada
Helpful | Level 5
8 years ago
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Is it possible to rename the Dropbox folder to Dropbox instead of Dropbox (Personal)?

I want to get rid of (Personal) in my dropbox root folder now that I've stopped using Dropbox business.  "Jane" gives a great desription of how to change it on my mac, on this page: https://www.dropb...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    8 years ago
    Hi there, the steps there are for a different reason.
     
    The (Personal) part of the name will only disappear if you unpair your personal account from the team account.
     
    If it’s still connected to a team account, then that tag will remain there and can’t be removed otherwise.
     
    After you’ve disconnected the accounts, you can reboot your computer and the folder should be automatically renamed.
     
    Let me know how it goes!
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Jay
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6 years ago

What OS are you running on that machine? Is it a company-maintained device (i.e. with an IT admin), or a personal machine?

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Bigalk
Explorer | Level 3
6 years ago

Hi Jay,

I am running Windows 10 Home. It is my personal privatemachine. It is not connected to a compamy in any way.

 

 Thanks,  Al

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      Bigalk
      Explorer | Level 3
      6 years ago
      Hi Jay,
       Thanks for all your help!  I made several attempts uninstalling and reinstalling Dropbox both as admin and not to no avail. I did manage to end up trying to backup all my files through the BETA during install.  What a mess! I had way too much data. It seems you can't use the rewind option unless you are a business account, which I am not. Manually deleting the data from dropbox would also delete it from the computer.
       
      I had copied all my dropbox data  before  I started with all this so I was able to recover everything and reset my directory links.
      It took some doing but I was able to empty my Dropbox.
       
      My status is a dropbox with nothing in it and I have to manually start it if I want to use it.
       
      Thanks again,
       Al

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