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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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winfel's avatar
winfel
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

I do not get it either. The "old" dropbox version seems to work just fine on Ventura so Dropbox is just throwing away its features of seemingly no reason whatsoever. It was one of the big things that the dropbox folder could be everywhere. I have a Mac Mini at home mirroring my Dropbox on an external hard drive, for example. What am I supposed to do now? Run it on Windows?

 

Please Dropbox, don't remove perfectly fine and working features just because the others did so! Don't become the others! Stay as you are!

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