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Vincent M.9's avatar
Vincent M.9
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11 years ago
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Can you remove the space in the dropbox folder name ("Dropbox (Company-Name)")?

I'm using my companies business dropbox account. And it created a folder called "Dropbox (my companies name here)". Is there a way to remove the space between "Dropbox" and "("? I don't want to ha...
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  • Ross_S's avatar
    Ross_S
    9 years ago

    Hi all, 

    Unfortunately, it's not possible to change the name of Dropbox folder, as many of you have discovered. 

    If you are using it for scripts then the best thing would firstly to parse the info.json and grab the path from there. The JSON is located:

    Mac/Linux: 

      ~/.dropbox/info.json

    Windows will be one of these two paths:

        %APPDATA%\Dropbox\info.json

    %LOCALAPPDATA%\Dropbox\info.json

    I say this as if you were to move your Dropbox folder at anytime then this would, of course, break any paths that explicitly referenced an exact folder path.

    On a side note, spaces within file paths shouldn't cause issues within scripts, it's fairly normal to have some spaces in there, just ensure your path string is correctly formatted and your script should be fine.

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Jane
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7 years ago
Hey take555, I understand that this is important to you. 
 
Based on a quick search I run on our system, I could see that you’re in an open discussion with my colleagues there. It would be more efficient to continue from where you’ve left off with them, since they’ve already gained some insight, however I’ve increased your Support priority internally on my end in order to expedite matters a bit. 
 
Please include all relevant details on your existing email chain, however I’m also here if I can help you on my end in any way! 

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