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change my dropbox folder name on my PC
I have my dropbox folder in the D drive of my computer. For some reason, the dropbox folder is not named "D:\Dropbox", but "D:\Dropbox (Elliotfan)" with my account name together. Does anybody know ho...
Hi Emilio,
I can only confirm what Rich already pointed out.
Dropbox for Business will allow you to access both your personal Dropbox and your work Dropbox from the same computer. To help signify which Dropbox folder is connected to which account, we've chosen to rename the business Dropbox to "Dropbox (business name)." Currently, there is not a way to change the name of this folder back to just "Dropbox".
By default, we place a hidden symlink from Dropbox to the new Dropbox (team name), so you may find that your applications can continue working by accessing this symlink.
However, if this does not work for you, and if you are comfortable creating symbolic links on your machine, there is a workaround that may help you. Please note that this workaround is not supported by our support team, so if you are unable to set up this environment, I'd recommend that instead of using this workaround, you move any files needed by your affected application out of your Dropbox folder instead.
If outside code sources don't cooperate with the space character or parenthesis character, the simplest workaround would be the following:
- pause Dropbox
- remove the hidden symlink at Dropbox
- Rename the "Dropbox (team name)" folder to Dropbox
- Place a symlink at "Dropbox (team name)" that points to "Dropbox"
- Resume syncingThis will allow Dropbox to continue accessing the content through the symlink, and it will allow any external code to use the "Dropbox" folder pathname that doesn't include the additional characters in the path.
I hope this helps!
This is horrible. I came here thinking I would find the obvious solution I was missing to this unassumingly simple issue only to find that it has been years in the making.
First of all I was removed from a shared account for work. Which apparently forces the DB app to revert the naming convention for the local folder without also giving me the option to first consolidate files out of the separate personal and shared account folders. So now my local DB folders are unlinked and all of my local DB files are no longer connected to the DB app. Then what I've learned so far is that I either need to use a clunky unsupported workaround, or re-sync all my 500+ gigs down from the DB servers?
You guys do understand people use this for working right? Maybe adding something like a simple "rename Dropbox folder" feature would help greatly, or hell you could even have the Dropbox folder automatically rename itself back to what it was previously for all I care. Myself and I'm sure many others never want the folder to become unlinked in the first place! This is bad UX and you know it.
