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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  • harrysfil's avatar
    harrysfil
    Experienced | Level 13
    3 years ago

    Please explain what's new in this version. Because many improvements and fixes does not explain a lot.

    • Mark's avatar
      Mark
      Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
      3 years ago

      harrysfil - I've been asking them to do this for over a year. They've ignored every single comment about it and point blank refused to do so. If nothing else its arrogant and rude of them 😞 

      • harrysfil's avatar
        harrysfil
        Experienced | Level 13
        3 years ago

        I know but i will keep asking so that one day they will decide to explain what's new in every version.

  • akseeker's avatar
    akseeker
    Helpful | Level 6
    3 years ago

    Not only does Dropbox not tell you what's changed, they don't even provide info on what OS it'll work with. I downloaded stable release 141.4.3299 in hopes it would halt the ~hourly ~30Meg DropboxMacUpdate.app downloads, really irritating on a 1Meg connection, but 
    "The following disk images couldn't be opened" because 'Image not recognized'.

     

    Does anyone know of an alternative to Dropbox that isn't so internet-chatty?

    • varenc's avatar
      varenc
      Helpful | Level 6
      3 years ago

      akseeker 

      I've seen it do that too.  It shouldn't be wasting bandwidth like that... But you can stop `DropboxMacUpdate.app` from waking up every hour by unloading its launchd job:

      launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.dropbox.DropboxMacUpdate.agent.plist

       

      • akseeker's avatar
        akseeker
        Helpful | Level 6
        3 years ago

        I 'fixed' it by (finally succeeded in) downloading the offline Dropbox 142.4.4197.dmg and installed it, problem seems to have ceased.

         

        Thanks anyway, hopefully Dropbox will fix the problem in the future…

    • sethhasty's avatar
      sethhasty
      Helpful | Level 6
      3 years ago

      Im on a trial of box.com and dig it a lot... I like a lot of the features of dropbox more (but maybe Im just used to it so well).     But I am also testing Jumpshare and I love it!  

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