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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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Hi, ChrisLeathers.
I appreciate your trying to help, but having another alias or a mapped drive to the folder with the space doesn't help the main issue. When backing up or transferring info to any unix-based operating system or website, the space is problematic. While a few programs that cannot access the folder with a space may be able to find the file with a mapped drive, those would be few and far between, relying upon the same operating system that allows the space. Otherwise, the program must use a %20 in place of the space.
Besides - it is just plain poor design to put spaces in filenames or foldernames.
As a work around.. you can create a virtual drive pointing to a folder in drop box.. so instead of the path being D:/dropbox (Personal)/myfolder.. the virtual drive would create a pointer and you would be able to use Z:/myfolder..
This gets you around the issue of the space and the parentheses.. atleast in some cases..
This has been going on for years and years. Dropbox does not care about its customers clearly.
this is so ridiculous that they haven't fixed this yet. completely unbelievable.
Good point, I used to have a personal Dropbox account as well (which I liked more), but our company requires that we do everything through the Business account (no flexibility on this).
That's a great question! I suppose they have better things to do than to cater to their customers. ;->
Keep in mind, of course, that this is only an issue with the Business version of Dropbox. An individual/Personal version of Dropbox has all the same capabilities except for "team management", and doesn't have the problem with putting a space in the folder name.
With space in the dropbox folder name, many programs cannot find the path to a file (e.g., Stata), which makes dropbox close to unusable. Why is it so difficult to fix the issue for developers after 6 years of complaints?
- How do I read texts
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.
