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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).
this is long overdue, but good news nonetheless! now to re-do a bunch of paths and scripts and such hopefully one last time.
how will we know when this is fully implemented?What was going on in the developer(1), developer(2), developer(3), developer(n)'s head when they decided to code it this way? Did they just get lazy with their algorithm design?
- Walter
Dropbox Staff
Status changed:Not for right nowtoAcceptedHi all, I just wanted to let you know that the team is working on this idea!
Some backups and backup folders are currently able to be renamed, and we are working to upgrade all backups to have similar functionality
Thanks for sharing your suggestion with us and to everyone for supporting it.
This would be 200% beneficial for me and my team's dropbox. Please look into this
I like the functionality, the new location, and the logo label for the "Mac" Folders for the Download Folder Sync/Backup. However, I have three Macs that currently back up their Download Folders to Drop Box Backup. They are labeled by default by Drop Box as "Mac" "Mac(2)", and "Mac(3)". So I forget which Mac is which. When I try to rename the folders, I get the message that the folder cannot be renamed as it is a feature of Drop Box.
It would be GREATLY APPRECIATED to allow the user to name these folders, even if the process was one where the folder name change request was submitted through Drop Box.
Thanks
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?
