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Craig Morris
New member | Level 2
4 months ago

Rename Dropbox Folder like any other type of folder

Having just swapped plans from Teams to Professional I've encountered a massive issue in that I can't rename the root Dropbox folder from Dropbox (Personal).  This has effectively removed all file li...
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Craig Morris's avatar
Craig Morris
New member | Level 2
4 months ago

That linked thread was from 10 years ago, surely you could have made this change by now?  It's not like Windows will allow you accidentally name both a business and personal folder "Dropbox" they still need different names. 

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    Mark
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    4 months ago
    Craig Morris wrote:

    surely you could have made this change by now? 

    I doubt it will come if I'm honest. They trialled it on some betas and found it caused data loss and syncing issues and so revoked it quite quickly. 

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