Be able to change Dropbox backup folders names on individual accounts

To Dropbox developers who insist that this is for UI simplicity.  Answer us this: What is simpler?  Referring to you by you name or as Human (1), Human (2),........., Human (235)?

YES! Please.. make the Rename Backup-function happen! Please

I have several Mac's that share the same Dropbox Business account.  I have each of them backing up on with Dropbox backup.  I am perpetually confused about which computer is which when trying to find items in my backups.  The names that Dropbox Backup creates for each computer when it is added are not based on the name of the computer which is set by the user.  Dropbox Backup gives each Mac an arbitrary name, "Mac", and if you add more you get "Mac (2)" and "Mac (3)" and so on.  

Thought the files are being backed up, it is difficult to know which computer owns which backup set.  This can be challenging when traveling remotely from my desktop and looking for folders on my my desktop that exist within Dropbox Backup.  I have to dig through the files one device at time until I find the file I need.  

Dropbox Backup should inherit the local computer name when it creates the backup file in Dropbox.  Then once established a user should able to change the names of the backup folders to something that provides identifiable and contextual names that allow for easy discovery of backed up files when multiple systems are backed up on the same account.  

Please implement this simple yet very well needed and helpful tool. Thank you! 

This has pretty much become a deal breaker for me.  Competitive products/services have this feature. It used to work this way but something changed and then we got garbage backup folder names.  The security tab clearly knows the names of all my pcs that I use to access my stored files on dropbox but there is absolutely no way to corelate those pc names to backup folders.  Not sure how this got designed out or why, I'm sure there is sound reasoning on the development side. However it has now been over  a year and it is not even considered?  

I understand that renaming the folder on the fly might be complicated since it might break a chain of symlinks and nobody wants that. However, it should be possible to choose the folder name when activating the feature.

I had to disable the backup feature altogether and do the linking by myself in the command line. Yes, this "Mac (2)" naming convention was so painful to me that I literally spent hours to get rid of it. Honestly, if I couldn't have found a way to manage it, I'd have switched to Google Drive by now. This guy saved you: https://brianlamb.notion.site/Methods-for-Custom-Backup-Folder-Name-f0426632c9044ab5bb3c52a0ec74ca50

Please fix this for future people.

Your stupid naming rules make me cannot even compile my code.

I don't know why don't you let users to config their backup name, just a simple feature!!!!!!

I try to disconnect my Mac to my account and sync again, and then each file appears a copy in the same location. What the **bleep**????????

No more pay this again!!!!!!!

rfog we can force our users to use one Documents folder and one Downloads folder. Even though we are removing the ability to have individual folders per machine which are uniquely linked to that machine. We can change the display of these folders, in Finder or in Windows Explorer, so that the references point to the individual folder. We can manually change the Downloads folder in every browser and every other software programme that downloads file.

However, and this is important, ...

We should not have to!

This matter becomes all the more complicated and complex when you try doing the same thing for the third of those backed up folders: the Desktop (either Mac OS or Windows).

We used to be able to name and rename our "backup" folders in Dropbox. Dropbox removed this. They need to put it back and respect their multi-device clients.

In the very near future each user will be using more and more devices with their Dropbox account rather than less and Dropbox needs to make that simple and practical.

Now of us should have to be implementing workarounds for a problem which our supplier, Dropbox, should be fixing for us.

sebkopf what I do is use a normal Dropbox folder and use it as my "Documents" folder in all my computers. In fact, it is the Dropbox auto-generated "Documents" folder. I think if you share one folder with your teams, all of them can use it as the common repository. 

I was looking into Dropbox for our team to switch to but this problem with not being able to name backup folders is a total dealbreaker. Most team members work with multiple analytical instruments that each need backing up from their individual PCs and it is impossible to tell which is which. Even worse, Dropbox seems to think some computers are the same and doesn't even give us the option to back them up (just "restore" from what is a completely different computer). This is not a missing feature, this is a major bug.