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erkin
Helpful | Level 7
5 years ago

Renaming Backup folder

Hi community, I have a question to those who use macOS devices. I recently got a new mac and set up the backup on Dropbox. Dropbox automatically named my new mac as Mac(2). However, I will be using t...
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Hannah
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5 years ago
Hey erkin, thanks for posting your question on our Community today!

I'm afraid that at the moment, there's no way to rename the backup folders.

Their names [Mac and Mac(2)], have been created so that you'll know which computer was backed up first and which second.

I will however pass your comments about this to our team, so thanks for this feedback!

If you have any questions, let me know.
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onewil
Collaborator | Level 8
5 years ago

I too very much would like this feature. Having multiple "Mac (x)" folders in my Dropbox is a bit ungainly to say the least. All those Macs have system names, maybe the Dropbox backup could use the machine name and then I'd know which was which?

 

Thanks for passing on the suggestions!

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