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Dropbox support for MacOS 12.3 - can we finally upgrade?
Hi, I cannot find anywhere anyone saying that Dropbox properly supports MacOS 12.3, even though it was released weeks ago and has now been superseded by 12.3.1 with zero-day fixes. I can find discus...
Hannah
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHi paul20, thanks for your interest in this!
We’re actively working on full support for macOS 12.3 (Monterey). You can read more info in this article from our Help Center.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Ok, so you're still working on properly supporting macOS 12.3. In the meantime, what limitations and/or bugs do we know exist if we go ahead and upgrade to macOS 12.3 without joining the beta program? I am aware that online-only files will show as zero size and may not be possible to open unless opened from the Finder.
If we upgrade to macOS 12.3/12.3.1, do you recommend we use the normal version of Dropbox, or upgrade to the beta channel?
Keeping my machine on macOS 12.2.1 is a security risk. But my data is really important to me too, and I don't like feeling like I have to balance those against each other. (I count 37 system-level security problems fixed in 12.3. Fortunately only one of those is remote code execution. 2 more problems were fixed in 12.3.1, both of which Apple says they have been told have been actively exploited.)
It's obvious that Dropbox stopped caring about their Mac software (and by extension, their Mac customers) years ago. I can't hold off updating my macOS for much longer. What you are forcing me to do, Dropbox team. is seriously reconsider my relationship with DP as my cloud-share solution. What a slide—10 years ago DP was a great Mac software developer. Frankly, I'll be glad when I can finally expunge your **bleep**ty resource-hogging crapware from my machine. Why are my fans suddenly going nuts? Silly me, just Dropbox crashing and relaunching itself in the background again, and spawning about 100 threads at 100% cpu each just to perform the initial sync yet again. The message is loud and clear (even above all that fan noise), Mac users: Dropbox doesn't want your business. So maybe it's time to go somewhere that does.
As soon as anyone gets a "save to cloud only / make available offline" replacement service that works how Dropbox used to - I'm off.
Making Dropbox work on M1 Macs running Monterrey would shake up the cloud-based storage industry and become a smash hit with Mac owners throughout the world. Given its prevalence within the creative industry Dropbox would be onto sure fire winner if they developed a working version for Mac. You could fund this by taking subscriptions off people who already have the hardware and operating system and are sending you monthly fees already.
