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After today's upgrade (30 Nov 22), I cannot locate my Dropbox folder
After today's update, i cannot locate the Dropbox folder on my Mac Powerbook running OS 12.6 Monterey. The alias folder is still there on my Dock (but now withuot the Dropbox logo on it) and there is...
Using Go and searching for Users/myname/Library has revealed the Library folder. But there does not seem to be a way of getting it to show in the usual way like other folders.
Anyway - sorted!!
I have just tried Command clicking on the title an open file in my Dropbox: it shows the expected location: user/library/cloud storage/dropbox.
So it seems the issue is not whether the dropbox folder is in the right place (it is) but rather that I cannot see on my desktop the last 3 items in that location list. I guess that, for some reason, they are hidden folders. In the old days you could tell Finder to show hidden folders and files; but that does not seem to be the case today. There is nothing about this in the Help menu. I will search on line for a terminal instruction to "show hidden folders/files".
Thanks for all your help.
Using Go and searching for Users/myname/Library has revealed the Library folder. But there does not seem to be a way of getting it to show in the usual way like other folders.
Anyway - sorted!!
I have seen the same issue with Dropbox files that used to show up in the finder not being shown there even though the files actually exist on my Mac. Not sure why the dropdown was removed from the Dropbox preferences window -
New dialog box
Older preferences - with option to open folders in Finder.
I discovered that my MacBook Pro (and my 2021 iMac - both running Monterey) has a default setting where the user's Library folder is not shown - presumably to stop people messing with it!
Open your user Home folder and the click 'Command i' to see the info for it. There you should find an option to "Show Library folder". Select that, and the user Library folder will appear in your user Home folder. That's where you'll find the folder Cloud Storage, containing the (new) Dropbox app.To get your ~/Library folder to show permanently, open your home folder in the Finder, then from the menu bar select View --> Show View Options (or just hit Command-j). In the View Options window that pops up, there will be an option to "Show Library Folder". Just check the checkbox next to that option and your Library folder will be permanently visible.
Thanks for this. If you read the reply before your own, you will see that I had found this solution myself a day ago.
