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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.
This is a MAJOR issue to me. I teach information technology in the college of business, and I tell my students NEVER to put a space in a folder or filename because it causes SO MANY problems when moving between different operating systems. Why would Dropbox do this? I'm just now deciding upon whether or not to go with Dropbox Business, and this issue decided it for me. I'm not going to do it - because of the stupid space.
Wow. I complained about this years ago and it is still a problem? Amazing...
This is why our entire company is currently moving from Dropbox to MS OneDrive. I'm sure we'll have fresh new annoyances over time, but the level of fail on this particular Dropbox bug is pretty astonishing. Unsubscribing from this thread, it's been real.
Actually, OneDrive is much much worse. You will be shocked at how poorly OneDrive is implemented, and how many limitations there are. My company keeps encouraging me to use OneDrive, and so I keep trying - but every time I run into yet another "problem" syncing and saving my files with OneDrive, I go back to DropBox, which at least works reliably.
I think the problem is that OneDrive doesn't actually put the files on your physical hard drive and sync them. It tries to use some kind of workaround with a network drive link. This works fine for Microsoft products that are specially programmed to show you that network link so that you can save to it. But some other programs simply won't save to it, or won't open the files that are on it, because there is no way to map a drive letter to it or simply review it in your file listing in Explorer.
Are you guys going to acknowledge this issue and maybe resolve?
You would have more business if you would actually work on real world issues that we face with your software.
folder naming with spaces is a no no,
I would also like to exclude files you monitor, expcally .lock files since your sofware gets hung up until the software that generated the .lock file is closed.
