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Andrew Parker
Helpful | Level 7
3 years ago

Re: Take Dropbox out of Mac Library

Hi all, like many Mac users, I have struggled with Dropbox since the introduction of OS12.3 back in March. Regardless, I have persevered, anticipating a long awaited solution to the online/offline issue that has resulted in 8 months of pain.

 

It now seems like the "fix" is actually going to render Dropbox completely useless for our organisation. 

 

For context, I run a studio of around 20 people, all working remotely. We use many applications that link to assets using absolute paths. Because of this we all have our Dropbox located at Macintosh HD > Users > Shared > Studio Dropbox. When a link is created to an asset (InDesign linking to an image for example), it doesn't matter whose Mac that is done on, open the same file on any machine and the link is the same. Crucially the user account of an individuals Mac never comes into play.

 

It's obviously incredibly frustrating to learn that Apple will now stipulate that the Dropbox folder must reside in a users CloudStorage folder, meaning that the above is completely impossible.

 

Is Dropbox a lost cause? I can't see any workarounds that will make Dropbox feasible going forward.

 

Anyone experiencing the same?