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the_ood
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago

Backup folder name change

Hello! I have 2 macs, one personal and one for work. Both had backup enabled and when I went online, I saw both computers' backup directories. The directories were both in the format of "My Mac (comp...
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  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
    4 years ago
    Hey the_ood, thanks for the post and happy Friday!

    I'm afraid that the name of the backup folder cannot be changed currently.

    I will, however, pass this along to our devs team for consideration!

    If you need anything else, make sure to let us know.
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bensanti
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

This issue has caused me all sorts of problems too.

 

I have two computers; a desktop and a laptop, both of which are backed up using DropBox.

 

Where both backups are simply labelled as 'Mac' and "Mac2', I have no clarification which is the iMac and which is the MacBook Pro.

 

Whilst on my MBP, I tried to sync a folder from my iMac, but I inadvertently synced the MCP, thus creating a folder of the laptop on the same laptop. This somehow completely rewired the routing on my laptop and created alias folder of all my fundamental folders (Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, etc.). It also gave itself priority so if I export something to the Desktop, it actually goes to the alias folder; Dropbox > Mac2 > Desktop. 

 

I can't even begin to tell you the problems this has caused me, all of which could have been very easily avoided if only we were able to name the backups in DropBox to make things crystal clear. 

Come on DropBox, please sort it out! 

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