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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...
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.
Thanks @take555 for the workaround, but I'm really really surpised that Dropbox has left this significant problem open for such a long time :scream:. Every software engineer should be able to understand the terrible consequence of having space in a folder name. Hope it will get fixed someday.
I find my self in the same issue that people have complaned about in this thread for years.
I am Dropbox Reseller and lost a deal over this. It breaks things in my enviroment and i hate this behavior.The mocking tone that dropboxers have used in this thread greatly iritate me and we will be looking for other services for our customers due to this.
the User of Spaces and Parrens should be avoided in pathing, while many GUI's allow you to do this is should be configurable (for buisness accounts it should be globaly configurable)
