Hi,
I work with five different Nextclouds - three for different business reasons and two private ones.
By default, all five sync folders in Windows Explorer are called âNextcloudâ - a bit hard to distinguish, to say the least 
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Renaming by changing the registry expression DisplayNameResource (as already recommended elsewhere) works - unfortunately only until the next restart (at least of the Nextcloud desktop app).
Obviously there will be a way to fix such a fundamental problem and distinguish multiple Nextcloud synchronisations - but Iâm too stupid to find it 
! Can anyone help me?
Thanks, Stephan
I also donât understand why Nextcloud at startup renamed it back to just âNextcloudâ. I ended up with creating a scheduled task that at startup changes the DisplayNameResource values in the registry to a more recognizable name.
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I think this is a bigger problem than the developers are willing to admit, otherwise it would have been fixed long ago. In my Windows Explorer are linked 7 Nextcloud accounts with the name âNextcloudâ - thatâs crap!
Iâve been waiting for the client update that finally solves this problem for over a year. The developers donât seem to realize that the linking in Explorer is extremely important for the user - otherwise they would have solved the problem long ago. I canât see it funny that this bug hasnât been fixed for so long time. If I change the registry entry under âSyncRootManagerâ, everything is fine for the moment - until the next time I start the Nextcloud client⊠because then the client resets the registry entry back to âNextcloudâ. I donât like it to complain, but every day when I want to work with Nextcloud, this bug is just extremely annoying!
Unfortunately still no support on this from NextcloudâŠ
Here the main part from my script to set the folder name at Windows startup, in this example for a user called âJohnâ. I let it run 30 sec after Windows startup, as NextCloud client sets it to default âNextcloudâ at startup.
reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\SyncRootManager\Nextcloud!someID!john@cloud.server.com!1 /v DisplayNameResource /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d Nextcloud-John /f
