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paul20
3 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Dropbox support for MacOS 12.3 - can we finally upgrade?
Hi, I cannot find anywhere anyone saying that Dropbox properly supports MacOS 12.3, even though it was released weeks ago and has now been superseded by 12.3.1 with zero-day fixes. I can find discus...
Megan
Dropbox Staff
Hi UKD, it would make sense that the app is indexing, since you just now installed the stable build, and due to the load of files.
You got this far, I understand how important it is to you, but please have some patience, as file re-index after this change.
As for your ability to sync, and unsync content, could you give me some additional info as to what you need to achieve here? I am only asking, because that ability is still available whether you use our latest app for macOS, or not.
UKD
2 years agoExperienced | Level 12
Megan It's gonna take a while. This is much slower than the beta build the other day. I think I'm about half way through the indexing with approx 2.4m files to go. I'll just have to wait I guess.
I honestly don't want to get in to this with the syncing. We all know that Dropbox has dropped the ball here and is blaming Apple for their own inability to plan and implement a proper strategy to deal with the API changes. Your company was too busy putting out new requested features like "Paper" and "Passwords" rather than working on the core system and your biggest problem, API connectivity and having your software work properly.
What I don't think your company realises is is who put you where you are. Who supported you and paid for your service as you grew. Who put up with crappy builds and insane memory hogging software. Us... your customers did. Those of us on laptops put up with hearing our fans blasting away all day because your bloatware software was poorly put together. And the reason we stuck with it was because Dropbox was ahead of the game. Great customer service, great features for designers and developers. Awesome file sharing abilities and then later the ability to smart sync files.
And then we are now here... waiting for for Dropbox, over 18 months AFTER Apple announced their API changes, and still no viable finished product available. Would put up with a defective car for this long? You wouldn't right? You'd sell it. Yet we've paid in advance for your service and it falls very short of what it promises to do. So here we are hanging on and twiddling our thumbs waiting to see if Dropbox makes a statement as to when the new release will be for it's customers, you know, the ones paying for your service.
My rant over for the moment.
- Megan2 years agoDropbox Staff
Hi UKD, if you could attach a screenshot of the app's syncing status as it currently is, that'd be amazing.
Also, if you click on your Dropbox icon, and then your icon on the top right, and check to "view sync issues" do you see anything there?
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