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Is it possible to rename the Dropbox folder to Dropbox instead of Dropbox (Personal)?

Is it possible to rename the Dropbox folder to Dropbox instead of Dropbox (Personal)?

Padraigincanada
Helpful | Level 5
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I want to get rid of (Personal) in my dropbox root folder now that I've stopped using Dropbox business.  "Jane" gives a great desription of how to change it on my mac, on this page: https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Installation-and-desktop-app/undo-changed-folder-name/td-p/220463

BUT, when I try the first step of deleting the link to my computer, it asks me "Delete files from my personal Dropbox the next time this computer comes online." and I don't know if I'm supposed to check this, or not supposed to check this.  And, it won't let me "REPLY" directly to Jane. 

Can anyone help? 

 

I want to keep all my files and relink them after I get the root folder name changed -- all I want to do is change the root folder name, I don't want to lose any files.

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Bigalk
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Hi Jay,

I am running Windows 10 Home. It is my personal privatemachine. It is not connected to a compamy in any way.

 

 Thanks,  Al

Jay
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If you're not on a Dropbox Basic plan with more than 3 devices connected, could you try an advanced reinstall of the app using the steps in this link.


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Bigalk
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Hi Jay,
 Thanks for all your help!  I made several attempts uninstalling and reinstalling Dropbox both as admin and not to no avail. I did manage to end up trying to backup all my files through the BETA during install.  What a mess! I had way too much data. It seems you can't use the rewind option unless you are a business account, which I am not. Manually deleting the data from dropbox would also delete it from the computer.
 
I had copied all my dropbox data  before  I started with all this so I was able to recover everything and reset my directory links.
It took some doing but I was able to empty my Dropbox.
 
My status is a dropbox with nothing in it and I have to manually start it if I want to use it.
 
Thanks again,
 Al

survivestyle
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Hello- I followed these instructions and the (Personal) is still appended to my Dropbox directory. Please advise. I really don't want to spend the time waiting for dropbox to download all my cloud sync files, move the files the directory, rename it the directory, move all the files back, and wait for it to sync again.

 

 

Здравко
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Hi @survivestyle,

Probably you haven't unlinked the application from your account in a proper way. The reinstall can NOT break the application link; it's not part of the installation, but part of the configuration. One alternative is wipe out the entire configuration. If you use "Selective Sync" or other local settings, specific for the device, keep them on safe (screenshot, for example), so gonna be possible restore at the end. Execute on your Mac following in terminal:

rm -rf ~/.dropbox

Now, it's like you have never installed Dropbox application (more precise - like you just have installed it, but not used yet). Run the application, link it to your account, and put the syncing on pause. Hopefully, you have now Dropbox folder named just "Dropbox" in process of syncing. To speed up the sync, move/copy your old content and release the sync. Will need some time to reindex and ... done! 😉

If you prefer resync everything anew, skip the pausing-releasing the sync and copying the old content; just let it sync.

Hope this can help you.

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