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Guy m
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5 months ago

Ability to rename Dropbox Backup machine names

Currently in Dropbox Backup all machines are named Mac (1), Mac (2), Mac (3) etc. Please add the ability to change those or at least give an alias so we can be able to understand which machine is wh...
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Guy m
New member | Level 2
5 months ago

Thanks but that article is from last year. I installed Dropbox after that came out.

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Hannah
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5 months ago

Hey Guy m.4, can you take a look at that article again and check if you're able to do everything that's possible with the updated version of the backup feature?

If not, it means you're probably on the older version, so you'll still need to follow the steps in there to update your experience.

Let us know how it goes.

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