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MacOS 13.0 Ventura, and Dropbox follows OneDrive in forcing the folder on the system drive
With Monterey, OneDrive implemented the new apis from Apple for online syncing that demanded its main location be a specific folder on the system drive. 8 months later, the MacOS community section of...
I cloned my internal drive onto a 4TB NVMe drive I stuck inside a Thunderbolt 3 enclosure and set it as the startup drive. It was over 500€ Burt still far less than returning the current Mac for a discount on a new one with a larger internal drive. It works, I can now have everything in the intended folders as per the official apis, which really means I don’t really get to decide that everything stays there, as it’s the system now that decides that based on its inscrutable evaluations. That’s not just Dropbox, that’s every cloud service on macOS from now (Ventura) on.
Thats a solution to make external drives work.
For us, moving DB to external drive was so that relative (user) paths become absolute (volume) paths.
Any workaround for that? Are you using DB by yourself?
Hey there, all.
I too am a deeply disappointed Mac/Adobe/Dropbox user and consultant for a few magazines, printers, agencies, etc.
I hate the loss of selective sync files downloading automatically when InDesign calls for offline linked files, and I hate the loss of the ability to move the Dropbox folder outside the Library folder. And I hate having to freeze updates to 12.2 indefinitely to maintain the current functions.
I have only one suggestion to those in need of an absolute path for multiple adobe/dropbox users.
If you used the Users/Shared folder before to make absolute paths, it occurs to me that the same function could possibly be replicated if the User's Home folders were all named the same.
Instead of Bob, Sally and Tom having custom user folder names, they could all use a home folder named "Design" or something generic like that.
Not ideal, and the logistics of creating a new user folder for each person and migrating everything (or just renaming the user folder - which could be problematic) would be a chore. But it could solve that particular problem if you think about it. And once it's done, there really is no downside to the loss of a home folder with your name on it. Unless that Mac is shared with multiple users who each need a unique home folder I guess. But that seems like a rare scenario.
If they all have the same user folder name, then the path is absolute (right down to the library). Just like when it was in Shared.
Maybe you all thought of this and decided it was not worth the hassle or that users would be unwilling, but I thought I'd throw that out there.
Meanwhile, I have to consider buying a 8TB SSD Macbook for many thousands more just to compensate for this hot mess.
>>>>Meanwhile, I have to consider buying a 8TB SSD Macbook for many thousands more just to compensate for this hot mess.<<<<
I have sat here for the last two days now trying to BUDGET A NEW MACBOOK PRO from Apple just in order to accommodate this mess. What a mess!!!!
Yes, I don' use in collaboration. Absolute paths don't seem likely, unless Apple is willing to relax their API I'm afraid.
Anyone know how this can be raised with Apple? Sounds like we need to put pressure on them.
- Their feedback page in their community under the macOS subject. And a lot of hope they aren’t just trying to oust all competing cloud services from the platform.
