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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.
What I want to know is what developer thought putting spaces in base directory paths was a smart thing from the very beginning? When I had to join a Dropbox team, it wound up breaking hundreds of links throughout hundreds of After Effects projects in my personal folder. They had to know how this deeply flawed approach could break links all over the place, honestly the incompetence is mind-boggling.
They were probably trying to be paradime shifting.. without success. But to not have any other options!!? , and not change it for what feels like centuries.. ha ha.. We love you drop box.. but seriously
It's not like they weren't told. The length, width, and depth of this thread alone should have been a clue.
But they obviously DON'T CARE!!!! They don't care about whether what they sell is actually useful, they just care if they can sell it. Apparently.
Maybe its like a Y2K bug, and if they change it.. all their code will go up in smoke.. I think they would probably sell more if they fixed it..
