Be able to change Dropbox backup folders names

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.

I don't seem to be able to vote on this idea. I click on the Vote for this idea -> button and nothing happens.

This is most unfortunate for this is a more than annoying problem. As a business customer I have clients each with several computers. They need to, for example, be able to copy a file from the Desktop folder of one of their computers to another of their computers. It is practically impossible at the moment as they do not know which of their computers is "Mac(1)" and which is "Mac(4)".

We have set the computer names so that each user knows which computer they're working on. But they have practically no way of knowing which computer's folder they are opening when they open Mac(2) or Mac(5). This makes the "backup" functionality practically useless.

All of our necessary files are already "backed up" as they are synchronised with Dropbox in real-time. It's almost easier for me to manually create a set of folders in the root of the Dropbox folder with the real name of the computer and manually create Downloads, Desktop and Documents folders in them and create aliases in the lefthand column in Finder. This works to a certain extent. But obviously not as intuitively, or as intrinsically, as when it's using the built-in system folders.

I can't vote for this feature, for some reason, but it really needs to be better prioritised as it's a lot more than a desired feature it's a practical necessity especially for business users with several computers.

It's time!

Here is a method (2 really) to enable a custom computer folder name...

I didn't detail it yet in this post(yet) but you can make you're own custom icon file too to note the "backup" folder as well.

https://brianlamb.notion.site/Methods-for-Custom-Backup-Folder-Name-f0426632c9044ab5bb3c52a0ec74ca50

helpful comments / improvements welcomed.

Not a supported method but I have used this kind of solution and have Apple Music for example referencing such a symlinked folder.

Hi there,

I know this is a feature requested by many of the public forms online and I have had the same frustration of not being able to change the name of the backup device to dropbox.

I am requesting that the device you set up to be backed up to dropbox can have its name changed (or that it follows the system's device name). It doesn't look the most professional having "PC (2)" as your device name, plus it makes it harder to remember which device is which and could lead to me deleted on moving a file from a device that is not the one I had intended to change.

I looked forward to hearing your thoughts on this.

The button to vote for this idea doesn't seem to work. It's hard to believe that I am stuck naming my backups PC, PC (2), PC (3), etc. This seems like a very basic feature and it needs to be added as soon as possible. It is not reasonable to expect customers to index their backups with PC (#) in their head--or Mac (#).

Thanks for the attention,

Matt

I don't know what the best way to emphasize the frustration that this causes.  

Hours of cumulative time wasted trying to figure out which files are stored locally on what machine I have based on the "Backup" folder name.

I will offer a polite request to consider this as a feature to implement.

Thank you.