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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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Michael S.197's avatar
Michael S.197
Collaborator | Level 9
2 years ago

Emanuele B. Megan 

I found a solution to this problem using the SUDO command for Mac Terminal. 
https://help.dropbox.com/installs/advanced-reinstall

This worked for me.  I have a 4 T drive, which is partitioned into a 1T system drive and 3T data drive.  I have 1.9T of dropbox data. 

 

Using this command sequence allows me to identify a folder on my data drive as my dropbox folder. Very helpful and elegant solution.

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