The fact that I can’t change the name of the dropbox folder in Windows from “My Dropbox” has been driving me crazy. After more Google searching than should have been necessary, I found this page describing how the author managed to find the setting and change it.
I found out the dropbox.db file in my
\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox folder on Windows 7 is a SQLite 3 database. Using a SQLite database GUI I opened it up and found a table called ‘config’, with a value called ‘dropbox_path’. The value appeared to base base64 encoded.
The value is base64 encoded. I see absolutely no reason for the developers to have done that except to make it difficult to change the setting.
Update: It appears this is a deliberate decision on the part of the developers. One of the developers has written up an explanation for the decision.
