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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...
pollen wrote:Wait wait wait. The new Dropbox does allow you to keep your Dropbox folder on an external drive with that "advanced reinstall" thing? All this hubbub is unnecessary? The Dropbox support article stating that "changing the location of your Dropbox folder is no longer supported by macOS" is not fully true?
It is my opinion that whoever is asserting this is incorrect. It is my understanding that the "new" version of Dropbox for Ventura does not support storing Dropbox-synced files on an external drive.
This doesn't mean there aren't ways to back out to an older version of Dropbox that still supports syncing files on an external drive, but it's not clear for how long Dropbox is going to continue to support this.
There finally seems to be a life after/without Boxcryptor and Dropbox, as I have found two cloud services that offer a perfect combination and alternative for less than what I was paying for my monthly Dropbox Plus plan. Of course, Dropbox deleted my recommendation here in the community immediately, even though it solves all the problems most people are facing due to the changes at Dropbox. They don’t want to solve your problems that they caused! I also complained about Dropbox's poor and unprofessional communication. If they had done a better job and didn't ruin their product with bad decisions and strategies, like Microsoft once did with Skype, they wouldn't have to censor discussions about competing products simply because Dropbox was always better and no other product could compete. But then Dropbox screwed up and failed to implement Apple's API requirements in a timely and professional manner. As if that did not cause enough problems, they then bought Boxcryptor, which killed that product and left all Dropbox users without zero-knowledge encryption out in the cold. I don't know what has kept the people at Dropbox so busy that they haven't had time to make the API changes and implement zero-knowledge encryption in time while their competitors have. Don't get me wrong. Buying Boxcryptor is a great decision, but they should have planned everything in a professional way with continuous open communication. So far we don't know which paid plans will get Zero-Knowledge encryption and when it will happen. What do these amateurs at Dropbox expect? That we will just wait and see what happens to our unprotected data? Forget it, and now that they are not even willing to accept criticism, it just confirms once again that this is not the company I should be trusting with my data. I have already moved my data to a new zero-knowledge encrypted cloud service from Germany and it is working fantastically. Next month I will be switching from my paid Dropbox Plus plan back to the free 2GB plan, but I will of course continue to follow the discussion and monitor the upcoming changes.
