I have 4 machines all syncing Dropbox. 1 has OneDrive as well that has been the discussion below.
This machine stores a local/offline full copy of all DropBox and OneDrive data.
OneDrive has done a flawless job of syncing and storing a full copy of the drive to the machine.
DropBox has had the issues already mentioned and now I am at the stage of rebuilding the full offline DropBox to the machine. It’s been quite a tedious process and far from efficient.
The overnight DropBox download to convert from online to offline has taken an eternity and has resulted in a patchwork of on & offline files. I have been doing a variety of DropBox and machine re-starts, manually going to the online files and clicking to make them offline.
It’s a bit of a mess and has consumed a lot of time.
I’m still not there and this has taken several days of my life I won’t get back.
I am more astonished that Microsoft has their app working very well on an Apple platform and DropBox hasn’t.","body@stripHtml({\"removeProcessingText\":false,\"removeSpoilerMarkup\":false,\"removeTocMarkup\":false,\"truncateLength\":200})@stringLength":"203","kudosSumWeight":2,"postTime":"2023-02-05T01:12:43.769-08:00","lastPublishTime":"2023-02-05T01:12:43.769-08:00","metrics":{"__typename":"MessageMetrics","views":1702},"visibilityScope":"PUBLIC","placeholder":false,"originalMessageForPlaceholder":null,"isEscalated":null,"solution":false,"entityType":"FORUM_REPLY","eventPath":"category:101001000/category:English/community:mxpez29397board:101001016/message:631423/message:656755","replies":{"__typename":"MessageConnection","pageInfo":{"__typename":"PageInfo","hasNextPage":false,"endCursor":null,"hasPreviousPage":false,"startCursor":null},"edges":[{"__typename":"MessageEdge","cursor":"MjUuM3wyLjF8aXwxfDUyOjF8aW50LDY2MzYzOCw2NjM2Mzg","node":{"__ref":"ForumReplyMessage:message:663638"}}]},"customFields":[],"attachments":{"__typename":"AttachmentConnection","edges":[],"pageInfo":{"__typename":"PageInfo","hasNextPage":false,"endCursor":null,"hasPreviousPage":false,"startCursor":null}}},"ModerationData:moderation_data:663638":{"__typename":"ModerationData","id":"moderation_data:663638","status":"APPROVED","rejectReason":null,"isReportedAbuse":false,"rejectUser":null,"rejectTime":null,"rejectActorType":"member"},"ForumReplyMessage:message:663638":{"__typename":"ForumReplyMessage","author":{"__ref":"User:user:1357196"},"id":"message:663638","revisionNum":1,"uid":663638,"depth":6,"hasGivenKudo":false,"subscribed":false,"board":{"__ref":"Forum:board:101001016"},"parent":{"__ref":"ForumReplyMessage:message:656755"},"conversation":{"__ref":"Conversation:conversation:631423"},"subject":"Re: MacOS 13.0 Ventura, and Dropbox follows OneDrive in forcing the folder on the system drive","moderationData":{"__ref":"ModerationData:moderation_data:663638"},"body":"
Any Update on this topic?...
I checked out MountainDuck using my external Storage and it works fine, it even has the feature to create share-links from the right-click menu. Looks like a very good alternative to the official dropbox client.
Still no update-notification to the latest version for me though
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