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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.
I agree, bill-1234
Dropbox has now implemented SO MANY features that "break" existing applications and confuse people to no end that I wonder if they truly understand why people use Dropbox.
If I wanted to use GoogleDrive with all its inherent limitations, I wouldn't be using Dropbox.
-I don't want an "app" that opens all of my files in an application that I don't want or need.
-I don't want to be able to watch as someone edits the files that we share.
Dropbox was previously the "dream" cloud storage. It automatically synched files on the back end, did not force you to use cloud space unnecessarily, and left all of your files in their native format.
But NO MORE. Now it opens files in that dreaded dropbox application (Paper or something like that), asks you EVERY TIME to put your photos on the dropbox (which would cause me to pay much more for storage because I have a TON of photos), and is very confusing about which interface is being used (the cloud interface or the local File Explorer interface).
Of course, the personal Dropbox is still better than either Google Drive or OneDrive or iCloud.
But the BUSINESS version of Dropbox - well, I gave up on that when they wouldn't let me eliminate the space. After trying to use it for more than a month I converted all my stuff back to the personal version. (And I needed technical support for that, so kudos to the technical support team at Dropbox for being willing to help me out.)
So that's what I suggest you do. I've found that the Business version of Dropbox doesn't give you anything that the personal version doesn't. I still have teams and share my folders with teams. I just have to manage each shared folder individually instead of having an over-bloated application to manage the teams.
Haha yes I feel you bro. If only G Drive was as good as Dropbox I would to them immediately with 30TB plan.
Dropbox dev and commercial teams are ridiculously inefficient. Is this company going bankrupt soon?
The sole reason I never updated to Business plan myself is excatly what you said OP. Business creates a stupid 3-user repository folder which is different vs. the one I'm using now with Pro plan, simply called 'Dropbox'. I do not want a different folder. I do not want a different name (Dropbox-Company-or-Whatever), I do not want 3 user minimum I simply want 1 user. And more TB space! 3TB is way too little. I need at least 10TB.
Google Drive offers 10, 20 and 30TB plans while staying with 1 user and not adding GoogleDrive-Company to it lol
Sadly G Drive interface sucks and I can't leave Dropbox as of yet
Keep making your customers angry Dropbox, when you go bankrupt someone else will make a better cloud service
