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po42
5 months agoNew member | Level 2
Can I change the filepath and name of the Dropbox folder on Mac?
Hi,
I use Dropbox to store a lot of data files that I need to access when I'm programming. I have two dropbox accounts, one personal and one from my university. Both of the default paths that Dropbox is stored at have spaces and parentheses in the name: for example, my personal one is stored at "~/Dropbox (Personal)/".
The name of this folder including a space and multiple parentheses is very frustrating when trying to access files in this folder because it is often hard to parse a filename like this. It would make accessing the folder much easier if it were called "~/Dropbox_Personal" or "~/Dropbox-Personal", basically anything other than what it is now. When I try to change the folder name, it unfortunately unlinks itself from the cloud. Is there an easy way to change the name of the folder?
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- Mark5 months ago
Super User II
po42 wrote:
Is there an easy way to change the name of the folder?
No I'm afraid not.
Dropbox folder structure is (annoyingly) not changeable in that respect.
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