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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...
In v123 the Dropbox desktop app used the computer name as the container for desktop, documents and downloads for the backup function. Now it's My Mac(2) as the container name.
I suggest either reverting back to the unique computer name - associated with the computer or allow users to change the nameikr we could for any other folder.
I have three Macs connected to my Dropbox. The backups used to be called {User}'s MacBook Pro, {User}'s MacBook Air, and {User}'s Mac Mini.
This was fine (although I could have done without the repeated {User}'s), but now that I've replaced one of these Macs with another, my new Mac's backup folder is called "Mac (4)". I followed all the correct steps, deleted and reset the old Mac, removed it from Dropbox backups, changed the name of the new one to {User}'s MacBook Pro, etc., before installing and setting up Dropbox Backup but it's still Mac (4). I've tried the remove, change name (again) and re-add but no luck.
This is extremely annoying because I use LaunchBar/Alfred to access folders from the keyboard, which means now I need to search "Mac 4" instead of looking for the computer I know. There has to be a way to change the backup name?
The correct thing would be to be able to choose the name
or use the name of the computer,
but since there are already several threads indicating, that not for now,
let's see if it would be possible to modify the way PC backups are namedInstead of PC, PC(2), PC(3), PC(4)...
change to PC01, PC02, PC03, PC04So don't use parentheses or spaces and the path is more short.
