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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Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffBeta Build 148.3.4469
Thanks for using Dropbox! The desktop client is regularly updated with many improvements and fixes.
Features in this update:
We're transitioning to using GUIDs to manage the taskbar icon...
When are you going to fix the Mac OS 12.3 offline files issue?
This build (and several recent betas) supports the 12.3 offline files solution (ie the move to ~/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox) but you may have sign out/uninstall/reinstall/sign in to make it happen..... as I did.
Offline file stuff isn't working right. I dont know if its just the online indicator that isnt working right or its the full thing. But I have to go into subfolders sometimes to get them to be offline. Definitely is not working right. and this is build 149.2.555. Again I dont know why this forum is so far behind on the releases that are actually being pushed out.
Weird that you are on a separate beta series...149.X.YYYY!
I am seeing some odd behaviour but not quite the same.
All my Dropbox files are correctly indicated "online only" or "available offline" and seem to be behaving correctly.
BUT, I use DEVONthink to index all my Dropbox files and DEVONthink is showing some folders (not enclosed files) as being online only. So there is some under-the-hood property of some folders that causes DEVONthink to report them online only even though they are available offline.
I can eliminate this for most (but not all) affected folders by going to the affected folders in Finder and right click>make available offline......even though the folders are already available offline and do not have a cloud symbol next to them.
This is probably a staged rollout for the Apple File Provider API. I never got it until I used one of these builds that are one version number ahead.
Dropbox uses different release channels similar to Firefox and Chrome, and we can only opt-in to the beta channel via the "Early releases" toggle in the web app. Apparently, there is another "alpha" channel that only a few got in earlier this year, and we don't know at which pace they add new users.
So the new code is already in everyone's Dropbox client, but they haven't enabled it for all user accounts.
Additionally, using one of these upcoming alpha builds without having that entitlement on your account means the same thing as disabling that "Early releases" toggle: You won't receive any updates until the lower channel (stable or beta) catches up with that build number. So installing one of these alphas and then disabling that toggle could mean that you stay for weeks on the same build.
