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Add possibility of rename Backup folders. If you have only one computer, it go fine, but if you have more than one, it ends being very confussing. Due iCloud Drive issues, I've changed all of my Macs "synchronized" Desktop and Documents to Dropbox. However, take a look to the picture:
It is very difficult to guess what is what. With the possibility to rename them, I could have named "My iMac", "My MBP 13", "My MBP 15". Very easy to see what is what.
(As a workaround, we can change to detail view, but could be more easy for all of us be able to change the names).
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So I am trying to understand. In order to move to backup beta, I have to turn off backup for all 4 computers and then turn them on again? Because I only see a few backup options when I try it on the one computer that doesn't currently use backup. Is there anything else I have to do?
- Sam DBX
Community Manager
I don't see rename!
- Sam DBX
Hi there mathydv and MBernhardt 🤚🏽
Sam from the Community here, checking if this is the feature you might be looking for?
If you go to https://www.dropbox.com/backup/all, you can edit the names either by using the menu ellipsis or the Rename prompt at the top.
Let us know,
What is going on with this? I see that this has been an open issue for years, and it is an issue no one used to have since these backups were named the same as the computer they came from. When am I going to be able to rename these backups?
More than 3 years (!!!) later and still NOT possible to rename my Dropbox backups.
What a joke this is.Far too long without an update. Has there been any progress or any "reasonable" work arounds?
It's been 3 months since we heard from Dropbox that they're considering implementing this feature - can we get a status update? I'd love to have a less confusing list of backups . . . . the autonaming setup is not great. Thank you!
You're welcome @andrumatt! Glad I could help. 🙌🏻
