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To be clear I am a Dropbox user just like yourself, I only offer this as an effective solution. As to whether Dropbox breaks it or not… Well I would use the second method I propose and then you just have symlinks in your home directory to folders that are being synced like any other folder in Dropbox It avoids any of the…
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I created a doc explaining how this could be done -- with some willingness to use the terminal and be responsible for your changes https://brianlamb.notion.site/Methods-for-Custom-Backup-Folder-Name-f0426632c9044ab5bb3c52a0ec74ca50
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I think I got this to work either through the App as you mentioned or through the web. Still confusing it isn't possible in the Paper app itself I thought. Thanks
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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 /…
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Here is a method to enable a custom computer folder name for "backups" of User home folder directories. https://brianlamb.notion.site/Methods-for-Custom-Backup-Folder-Name-f0426632c9044ab5bb3c52a0ec74ca50 Not 'supported' by Dropbox but it will work, I have used it before documenting this here.
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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.
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/94w5ic0qmq6jod7/Photo%20Jun%2005%2C%2011%2044%2016.png?dl=0
