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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 now have three shared Windows desktops called PC, PC(2) and PC(3) and can't rename them to their PC names. Oh boy, what fun - this surely can't be right!
That said, the ability to actually have a shared, versioned desktop is wonderful! Many thanks. Keep up the good work
MartinJ
This would seem to be a pretty basic feature, and I'm not sure why it isn't. Like others, I would prefer not to have to remember PC, PC (2), PC (3), etc. I'm not sure why they can't at least use the name assigned to the computer. Since I'm new to Dropbox, I'm seriously re-thinking whether or not I'll continue after the 30-day free trial.
I was just trying to remove the backups of other computers from my laptop using selective sync, but it was very confusing because the folders are all called PC, PC (1), PC (2), etc.
I would like to be able to rename these for clarity of which is which, or perhaps they could just take the name of the computer from windows directly as I’ve named all my computers.
Everyone here in Dropbox Forum, please, upvote this idea in order to prioritize this feature (in fact, this is not my idea – I saw a lot of users saying about this in the forum, but it appears no one had posted on the idea board yet. If someone did, I apologize in advance for posting it again).
This is not a new problem. I have seen a lot of users complaining about this. Dropbox currently does not allow users to rename their backup folders. So, if you have more than one computer (like myself), the program automatically names it like Mac (1), Mac (2), Mac (n)... and so fourth. This is very annoying, because we want the freedom to name the backup in a way we can remember what machine each backup relates to. Please, fix this ASAP.
Super easy, let us rename computer backup folders. I do NOT want to use the folder names that are decided by Dropbox.
- How do we upvote this?. My family members have multiple pcs and are having to guess where documents etc are going. Much better to have jenny work pc, or Bernie play pc.
- Megan
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hey RichieRich1891, I hope you're doing well!
Your feedback regarding our new Computer Backup has been very valuable and I will endeavor to make sure your voice is heard.
I'll forward your feedback to the appropriate areas so we can continue to improve.
In the meantime, you can also suggest this in our 'Share an idea' section, so other users can upvote it.
Cheers!
Dear Support,
I want to requests a feature that the backup folder, wil have the same name as my PC.
Every time I reinstall my machine, the backup folder has the name PC(#).
I'm currently have PC(5) as a backup folder.
Can Dropbox change this?
This is truly ridiculous. I already had a fully working backup system in place, whereby I kept all the directories I wanted to backup in my Dropbox folders, then symlinked certain ones into Dropbox from my system where the system required it. I saw an invitation in the Dropbox app to try the new backup feature, so I rearranged everything, re-synced hundreds of GB of files, and now I'm stuck with a Dropbox folder called "Mac (2)" that I can't change.
This renders the entire backup feature unusable for me. I do a lot of command line work, and having spaces, parentheses, extraneous characters or, frankly, anything I didn't choose in the path to all my synced files is a deal breaker.
I'm now going to have to turn off backups, rearrange all my directories and files as they were, create symlinks as needed from outside Dropbox into the files I've moved there, and use a more clunky system that has worked for years, just to avoid having this ridiculously-named folder in the path that Dropbox won't let me change, and won't even take seriously as a feature request. I'm angry.
