You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Forum Discussion
What happens if I don't update to the new Dropbox for MacOS?
I have Dropbox on my M1 MacMini, M1 Macbook Air, old 2015 MacBook Air (all three on Monterey 12.6.3) as well as my iPad Pro and iPhone 13. On the computers, my DropBox folder is in users/{myname}/Dro...
By default, new files added to the account from the site or another device would sync as online-only on your machine, but you can still mark them as available offline.
Files will still sync as normal, and yes, you'd need to change your aliases if any apps of programs need to locate the Dropbox folder.
I guess the name "CloudStorage" confused me, making me think the files would only be in the cloud. You're saying nothing would change, I'd just have to update all my aliases on my devices?
Jay
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffBy default, new files added to the account from the site or another device would sync as online-only on your machine, but you can still mark them as available offline.
Files will still sync as normal, and yes, you'd need to change your aliases if any apps of programs need to locate the Dropbox folder.
I have several macs that I sync using dropbox, none of which has a large hard drive. I keep my dropbox files on encrypted removable drives which are stored at a different location when not in use.
The removable drives are several terabytes in size, giving ample storage capacity for my needs - my dropbox folder is currently close to 600Gb and will continue to grow in size.
If the new dropbox software tries to move my dropbox folder to my mac drive it will fail as there will not be enough room given the space requirements of other software installed on the machines. In any case I specifically do not want the data stored on the mac hard drive due to the physical security requirements. One of the significant benefits of Dropbox has been that I have been able to move the dropbox folder to wherever I want it without any hassle.
Does this mean I have ditch Dropbox and use a different provider? Can I create a symlink to one of the external drives and continue to use that? Is there another solution? Although there are plenty of alternatives I would prefer not to have to change to a different provider if I can avoid it.
