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Emanuele B.'s avatar
Emanuele B.
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

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...
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discofuel
Helpful | Level 6

I'm not following how a symlink won't work. The actual path will be wherever you previously stored your Dropbox folder.

 

For example, if your Dropbox folder was previously on an external hard drive - e.g.

 

 

/MySSD/Dropbox

 

 

You would then create a symbolic link to that folder, and put it in:

 

/Users/{username}/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox

 

 

The actual path is identical to your previous location. It's Dropbox that will use the symlink.

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eedis
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago

just tested this in photoshop and illustrator – when created in terminal (not as an alias), it does work.

this is new, this hasn't worked in previous versions. thanks for the note.

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