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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 have a space in the path. So the folder name will become "Dropbox-Company" or "Dropbox_Company" or something, but not space.
It seems impossible.
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
Dropbox Staff
I come here with same space problem.
After reading this thread, I am sure Dropbox do not care about this problem at all.
It seems I must find alternative services.:sob:
- Hi this is really annoying. Please fix it.
- Fiona
Thanks for your question dmarchant
Unfortunately I have no information regarding what is being designed next to make Dropbox better.
All I can tell you is we do review your feedback. We will make sure to inform you for new releases, when they are out and you can use them to solve the problem. Until then I can only thank you for your input, your patience and understanding.
Cheers!
Fiona Can you at least tell us if this is ever going to be addressed? I assume the answer is no (as it is a small change that we have been asking for years with no action taken...) but it would be good of you to come out and say that instead of stringing us along while telling us that our requests are "actually being reviewed" (and taking our money the entire time...).
Hi fiona,
You allways say in your answers that you do read and pay attention the your coutsmers'problems. That is nice of you. But it is much better to be professionally efficient than being nice. DB is really pushing us to look for other solutions with other providers.
Ha, just noticed that this discussion is not dead as yet. We moved to other solutions - there are plenty of cloud providers and software solutions that have no limitations like these. Probably it's the wrong place to name them, but if Dropbox (Fiona) reads this conversation - we ditched Dropbox mainly for this reason.
