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MikeHLondon
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

Is there a way to set the Dropbox folder via the command line?

Hi Dropbox   HUGELY EXASPERATING -- NO WAY TO MOVE / SET THE DROPBOX ON-PC FILE LOCN ON COMMAND LINE INSTALLS   #Dropbox - presuming you are here,   WHY am I having to ask the Community to he...
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Hannah
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3 years ago

Thanks for this info, MikeHLondon.

 

We appreciate your feedback here and I will make sure it's passed along to our team.

 

Let us know if you need anything else.

 

Happy holidays!

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MikeHLondon
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

HI Hannah 

 

You asked if I needed anything else --  YES !!!     A SOLUTION PLEASE !      "passing this along" is not good enough.

 

You (DropBox) are a Big, RICH,  Commercial software company.   You have CUSTOMERS (thats us out here) who get exasperated when you don't FIX your very-mature-product-that-really-ought-to-work-by-now. 

 

I've posed a simple question which PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR SEVERAL YEARS   - it is simple - CAN YOU PLEASE provide us (now) with the no-doubt simple script or instructions to RELOCATE the on-PC storage location  when using the HEADLESS (GUI-less)  version of Dropbox for Linux which otherwise works very well. 

 

Instead of sending me NO help as you did above - why not pick u a phone to a developer - ask him - he would tell you / send you a link by mail - you send it back here and then thousands of us would be happier, immediately.    Instead of  COMPLETELY UNABLE TO USE DROPBOX ON ANY HEADLESS LINUX INSTALLATION USEFULLY AT ALL WHILE WE WAIT. 

 

We KNOW you have the answer to this -- in the GUI versions you use a system tray tool to do it - so the code exists;

 

And we know you shared a script to do it in years past because from 2013 the old script is still out there in the wild (it just doesn't work anymore). 

 

So YES -- You CAN help me further  --  Can I have some PROPER CUSTOMER SUPPORT from DROPBOX please - QUICKLY so I can get on with my Job  - or shall we all just  assign DropBox  to that well-known and enormous, growing pile of companies globally who really just don't care about customers at all,   they just hide from them as best they can,  and just enjoy counting the cash.   

 

Let me know which if you would.

 

Thanks

 

Mike

EXASPERATED and Waiting for Dropbox 

London

 

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