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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...
You guys are pretty impressive how angry you are about the system change that you insist I must be working under different conditions, or made up this method somehow, and don't attempt the workaround. And that you are so insistent that I cannot have found a workaround that might work for you too, without just trying it out.
FYI, I was *forced* into the new system much earlier than you new guys in this thread, back in November, because I bought a new laptop, and had to do a fresh install, just as Dropbox was changing its policy and system. No "reverting" possible for me, I was forced into this Dropbox folder on my system drive. I searched around for hours, and had apple care on the line over multiple calls over a couple of days trying to work this out, and got this answer in a thread, proposed to my by a dropboxer - someone within the company - not some rando. It is from the old system, but it works under the new system because it doesn't use Symlink, it uses Sudo.
I've been using it for 2 months now without at hiccup, once I got the backups running properly.
So next time you want to tell someone what you think about about their problem, perhaps think twice. And perhaps try it out to see if it works or not before coming up with opinions out of thin air.
Michael S.197 wrote:
I've been using it for 2 months now without at hiccup, once I got the backups running properly.
So next time you want to tell someone what you think about about their problem, perhaps think twice. And perhaps try it out to see if it works or not before coming up with opinions out of thin air.
I'm happy to hear that you are happy, but personally, why would I invest in a solution that Dropbox has said in no uncertain terms that they are phasing out?
Me, I'm not particularly angry. It just means that Dropbox isn't suitable to meet my needs enough to pay for a subscription. I'll use the free subscription that I currently have, and I'll live with that. I'll use other solutions where I need to sync more data. Dropbox is not the only sync-fish in the sea.
Though I would happily pay for a Dropbox subscription if they weren't moving to this new model, where all synced files have to reside on the internal drive.
