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davidrh
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2 years ago

How can I rename my Dropbox Backup?

So, I backed up a Mac a year ago with stuff I didn't care about. This was before the new Dropbox "backups" app. Anyway, I had a backup named "Mac". I recently wanted to back up my new Mac, and it is ...
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Megan
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2 years ago

Hi davidrh, welcome to our Community! 

 

When you access your Dropbox folder, do you see your Mac (2) Backup content located there? 

 

Keep me posted and we'll take it from there! 

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davidrh
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

I can see the folder backup ~/Dropbox/Mac (2) within the terminal, but it does not appear in Finder. Renaming it through the terminal does nothing either as it just re-syncs it. I can also see it in the new Dropbox backup menu. The backup function works fine, I just wanted to change the name without re-uploading everything. I can't find an option to anywhere. I'll try to find a solution but it's probably just easier to delete and make up a new backup of 105 GB than to just rename it.

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