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.

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DBMcNic
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

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...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    2 years ago

    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.

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discofuel
Helpful | Level 6

The new Dropbox update that forces you to store your files in /Library/CloudStorage will not work for me.

 

If I ignore the update, will I be able to continue using Dropbox as normal? Or, at some point, will I be forced to update?

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discofuel
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

I posted that last message as a new thread because it's difficult to get a straight answer from the Dropbox team, but they just moved my message to be a reply in this thread...

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