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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...
Michael S.197 As just published again by Dropbox in a statement (see below screenshot) and confirmed by my own experiences, you cannot force the switch to the new folder location. As long as you did never receive a corresponding notification from Dropbox and as long as your Dropbox folder was not moved automatically to ~/Library/CloudStorage, you are most definitely on the old structure, independently from the stable version number you use. Only joining as a beta tester will force the change of the folder location.
Martin R.19 wrote:Only joining as a beta tester will force the change of the folder location.
I have the new version of Dropbox (the one where everything is forced to be in ~/Library/Cloud Storage/Dropbox) and I never signed up to be a beta tester. I installed Dropbox on my new Ventura computer and initially I got the old version. But then almost immediately was presented with a request to for Dropbox to change me to the new version. The message I was presented with said that this is how Dropbox would be going forward and it would be "better" or something along those lines.
If there was anything about being a "beta tester" it was in the fine print, and everything I was presented with made it seem that I would have to make this upgrade sooner or later, and so I might as well do it sooner.
nessus42 then you are located in a region/area where Dropbox already proceeds with the change while users like me are waiting for that still...
