The cloud directory name "Ubuntu One" has a space in it....

[J Fernyhough]

On 26 December 2012 17:29, Marc Deslauriers
<marc.deslauriers at canonical.com> wrote:
> On 12-12-26 09:52 AM, Fredrik Öhrström wrote:
>> this causes problems when I try to use the directory for my source code
>> projects that use make or when I put configuration files for dosemu in there,
>> or a thousand other situations, when spaces in directory names cause
>> problems....
>>
>> I can of course create a link to it with a name without space, but it would
>> be much better if I, in the UbuntuOne tool could rename it to "UbuntuOne".
>>
>> Adding another storage under a different name, is not an options since
>> I cannot remove the "Ubuntu One" directory and I do not want to have two
>> cloud storage directories.
>
> Why can't you remove it? Just create a new synced directory, right click
> the "Ubuntu One" directory and click on "Stop synchronizing this folder".
>
> Seems to me you have a very specific use case with broken software. Most
> people wouldn't hit a limitation with spaces in directory names.
>
> Marc.
>
>

Call it a feature request instead. "Customise default sync folder on
first setup". Every Linux-compatible sync client has this option.  It
also neatly sidesteps any similar issues without requiring any extra
steps in the user workflow.

J