You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
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...
This is truly ridiculous. I already had a fully working backup system in place, whereby I kept all the directories I wanted to backup in my Dropbox folders, then symlinked certain ones into Dropbox from my system where the system required it. I saw an invitation in the Dropbox app to try the new backup feature, so I rearranged everything, re-synced hundreds of GB of files, and now I'm stuck with a Dropbox folder called "Mac (2)" that I can't change.
This renders the entire backup feature unusable for me. I do a lot of command line work, and having spaces, parentheses, extraneous characters or, frankly, anything I didn't choose in the path to all my synced files is a deal breaker.
I'm now going to have to turn off backups, rearrange all my directories and files as they were, create symlinks as needed from outside Dropbox into the files I've moved there, and use a more clunky system that has worked for years, just to avoid having this ridiculously-named folder in the path that Dropbox won't let me change, and won't even take seriously as a feature request. I'm angry.