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Be able to change Dropbox backup folders names on individual accounts
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).
Relink/claim external drive (or any) backup from a different (new) computer
Hey team, I recently bought space to use the new Backups feature with an external drive. After the initial 2.5TB upload (which took about 9 days), the backup worked great until I upgraded to a newer computer. External drive backups are locked to the computer they were created on, so I can’t claim or relink them with a different computer, even if the external drive is the same. Your agents recommend deleting the old backup and creating a new one, which is a hassle since I’m uploading a lot of data and it takes a long time. I’m also without backup for the next week while I re-upload it. I pay extra for unlimited internet data, but that could be a problem for some people. I’d love to upgrade to fiber-based internet, but it’s not available in my neighborhood. I’m stuck with cable with a capped 50Mb/s upload speed and 1Gb/s download so for the time being, this will continue to be a problem with the backup service. The ability to relink or “claim” a backup for the same external (or any) device would be a great feature for your product roadmap. It’s not a daily feature, but when it comes up, it’s risky, costly, and time-consuming to manage without it. Features like this often get delayed because they’re considered edge cases, but they become major long-term pain points for users.
Scheduled camera uploads
I would like to schedule my Camera Uploads so that I have a chance to remove/organize things before they're uploaded. Ideally I could have options to set either the time or frequency - i.e. 2am every day, or "any item older than 6 hours." Two examples (on android) today: Sometimes I take 2 or 3 photos in order to choose the best one and delete the others. But even if I delete them quickly, dropbox is too efficient(!) and they've already upload there, where i have to clean them up again. If I take a screenshot and then edit it to add, say pen coverage, it uploads to dropbox as 2 files, even if I save over the original locally. Often I'm annotating an image to text to someone, but don't need it backed up in dropbox at all, so I'd delete it before uoload.
