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Emanuele B.'s avatar
Emanuele B.
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

MacOS 13.0 Ventura, and Dropbox follows OneDrive in forcing the folder on the system drive

With Monterey, OneDrive implemented the new apis from Apple for online syncing that demanded its main location be a specific folder on the system drive. 8 months later, the MacOS community section of...
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Walter
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Hey LvH, thanks for posting on our Community and providing your thoughts on this. Your feedback has been noted in our system. 

 

It seems that you haven't opted in the beta for Mac OS users, so you haven't received this update yet on your device. 

 

If you’re interested in joining our private beta, you can turn on early releases while you can also keep up to date with what is supported on macOS 12 and higher by viewing this article.

 

The updated Dropbox for macOS app has been developed to adhere to the requirement as set out by Apple therefore this update was introduced to ensure the best possible experience for our Mac users long into the future.

 

I hope this information helps and please let us know if you have anything else to add or ask. 

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CA_Boarder
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

So is the ability to move your dropbox folder to an external drive going to be added in a future version or is this function going to be completely removed.  If so, I am going to cancel my subscription.  My primary boot drive doesn't have enough space for my dropbox folder so I need it on an external drive.  Please let me know if this is not going to be a supported function, so I can find an alternative to dropbox that does support external drives.

  • eedis's avatar
    eedis
    Helpful | Level 5
    2 years ago

    Same here, I was about to introduce this to our business and now i read this.

    Is there any fix to it?

    • Emanuele B.'s avatar
      Emanuele B.
      Helpful | Level 6
      2 years ago

      I cloned my internal drive onto a 4TB NVMe drive I stuck inside a Thunderbolt 3 enclosure and set it as the startup drive. It was over 500€ Burt still far less than returning the current Mac for a discount on a new one with a larger internal drive. It works, I can now have everything in the intended folders as per the official apis, which really means I don’t really get to decide that everything stays there, as it’s the system now that decides that based on its inscrutable evaluations. That’s not just Dropbox, that’s every cloud service on macOS from now (Ventura) on.

      • eedis's avatar
        eedis
        Helpful | Level 5
        2 years ago

        Thats a solution to make external drives work.

        For us, moving DB to external drive was so that relative (user) paths become absolute (volume) paths.

        Any workaround for that? Are you using DB by yourself?

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