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Anything view able on the internet is downloadable, dont fall for anything that says you cant.

you can not.

Technically, no, there isn't. Dropbox will always use a space and parenthesis in the name for team accounts. However, see the response from a Dropboxer in the following post for a possible workaround. * https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/201852169-change-my-dropbox-folder-name-on-my-PC/comments/205768176…

Symbolic links to a directory doesn't help since OS X file open dialog converts these into the "official" name when you click through the symlink. ^ Thats a complete and total fail on the part of OSX

Nexus T. You cant, the application keeps renaming it back to add the biz name if you did manage it. (pretty rude of them really, changing folder names on biz customers, but I guess its who cares we have there money already, lets make it nice for the free account!) Anyway, what you can do is create a symbolic link folder…

Adi S. : you did it wrong, it worked for me just now.

Unlink the DB app from your account, rename the folder, relink the DB app (do not use previous settings when prompted).

Add the folder to the cloud via the web browser, then once all is in sync delete it, if all parts think it exists, then all parts should be happy to remove it at once.

@mike v. : If you dont have anything to add dont comment. I replied with you're wrong and why, your reply to that amounts to trolling.

The web interface should only recreate the folder if a device connected instructs it to. So one of your devices must not be selectively synced, or has some greater issue. (1) Check each device to see if the folder is present on the device, and remove it. If it comes back its not that device that ordered it created. If it…

That is problematic, it appears that the files will delete but the folder wont, on the faulting device. You could try leaving a file in there and then deleteing the folder, it might be regenerated.

@John U : its the machine that could not delete them, since all that can wont have the files anymore. The one that cant still does, so must do something with them, and it chooses to upload them again. (in reality it is just doing its job, it deletes the file, it finds a file it, uploads a file, the DB app doesnt know it…

@Seetharama D. : excellent additional info, on imagining it, that is very logical, when a folder is erased all the files one by one are ordered removed from the DB cloud, but the not synced folder is never present so is never ordered to be removed. The end result is there is a path to that not synced folder that never is…

@Charles V. : I gave advise for an empty folder option, and a file present folder option. Which do you have? Just saying you still have it and nothing else wont do anything to help you out, its like ringing 911 after your last call and repeating you need help and hanging up again without an address supplied.

If the folder is empty, insert a file into it, and then delete the folder, this is a known glitch (unknown cause) . If the folder has a file appearing in it, then right click the file and check previous versions, for the machine that is uploading it again, this machine is normally failing to delete the file, and following…

Scott R. : It wont generate a new file on the same drive you did a CUT/PASTE. If you said COPY/PASTE tho, thats another story.

DB doesnt copy and paste files at all. The OS file browser does that.

You randomly jump from talking about a web site copy and paste to a machine copy and paste like they are the same thing. On the website DB is doing the work, on the machine the os is doing it.

Wondering what people would pay for a product like this? We built one that ignores *.tmp??? files as the program in use by staff at this place was generating tmp save files every 5 minutes and we couldnt stop it. Built for Windows its hard coded to that only but would not take much to use a wildcard/regex matching list.…

@Stephen B. DB does not supply a DMS, it supplies a synced document/file system. The version of each file inserted into the system is tracked and stored under the filename of the file inserted/edited/removed. It never claimed to be a management system where a rename or move would be tracked, in fact the whole idea of that…

Have you considers the most obvious act? Lets see today when I RENAMED MY FILE i lost all the version history. Tomorrow when you RENAME YOUR FILE BACK AGAIN, you might find them.

@Tim F. Sorry but i think you're being a bit slow as I said, I have an Android phone so CAN'T test it myself, telling me I should go and test it is simply ignoring what I have said or failing to read it. And anyway, I did have it tested as I said, and he didn't "checksum" the files he didn't need to he performed a binary…

@Tim F. You need to make clear VERY CLEAR what your talking about. You keep naming the iOS Phone app as the "Camera Upload feature", but the "Camera Upload feature" is part of the "Desktop app" (see preferences/import/camera upload), this I have used and it uploads the files the same. As I run Android I dont have the iOS…

@Tim F. : see previous reply on test data (this thread)

@Bryan R.: Your not getting a comment because they have commented over and over and said the same thing over and over, NO DB DOES NOT CHANGE YOUR FILES. Now what I would suggest to you is this: Stop comparing your ORIGINAL files to the online PREVIEWS of them. Next time download the file you uploaded and compare the two,…

@Judy B. : You are a slacker and likely dont work at all. (wow see how easy it is to abuse someone). One digital file on Db is NOT one file, it's made up of non exclusive use data blocks, that are part of a global data pool of cross linked blocks that cover all files uploaded. So when you have the "file" in your own…

Kazi R. : Db do NOT supply space per shared folder at all. It sounds like you have shared a folder with a FREE (3GB) account. Each account sharing access to a folder, must have enough room to store the content of the folder into their own dropbox, Dropbox work on how much content you have, not where it came from.

If the shared folder only had 800mb in it thats all of the 2gb it would have consumed. If you found all 2GB used then the shared folder likely had more in it. Deleting the shared folder will restore the space it was using. (you may experience need to refresh your browser window to get correct free space)

kevin f. : all is not lost my friend :-) You DONT have to UNSHARE the folder, just DELETE it from your dropbox. Its the HAVING the folder in your dropbox that takes you over quota, not the being in the SHARE. UNSHARING the folder means your not in the SHARE (so no quota use). DELETING the folder means your not viewing the…

Ben L : lol but folders in a file cabnet need to be made of cardboard or some material as well, I guess you forgot that point. Of course neither make any difference since a folder (shared or not) takes NO storage capacity, try it. The bookcase analogy is theoretical not physical, scope of bookcase functionality and size…