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Emanuele B.
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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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Fluk3
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FGK-120 Interesting, I do not not have an upgrade notification yet and I am in the southeast US.

 

I am in interested in what the notification says about he upgrade. Can you share a screenshot or transcribe the text here?

 

In my case, I can probably live without dropbox on an external drive. What I really, really need is the auto-sync of online-only files for proxy linked Adobe files, such as InDesign and Illustrator links.

 

I'm not sure if that feature worked or not in the early-release. If it does work in the upcoming upgrade I'll be okay I guess. If not, this will be a disaster for me and my colleagues.

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FGK-120
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago
Fluk3 wrote:

Interesting, I do not not have an upgrade notification yet and I am in the southeast US.

 

I am in interested in what the notification says about he upgrade. Can you share a screenshot or transcribe the text here?

Fluk3 I am in Australia but I wouldn't like to guarantee the staged rollout is based on geography.

 

If I click in the menubar is says "Dropbox for MacOS is now ready. Update Dropbox to use it for the latest version of MacOS. Get started", with the Get Started being a link that I have so far resisted clicking.

 

 

  • TRO_Berlin's avatar
    TRO_Berlin
    Helpful | Level 6
    2 years ago

    A colleague already got the notification to update his dropbox directory to the User Library, another colleague and me did not get the notification yet (all of us are based in germany / berlin).

     

    I am not really ready to trust the "advanced reinstall method" in the future to be honest. It is a huge amount of data we have to reindex / or even redownload when support for this advanced reinstall method may end (i am speaking 20TB+, not 1TB).

     

    Let's hope for an official statement and maybe official (and long time supported) method just like OneDrive gave their users (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-onedrive-blog/inside-the-new-files-on-demand-experience-on-macos/ba-p/3058922)

     

    We are now thinking about switching to MountainDuck as a Client for Dropbox, which handles offline storage differently and (i guess) will not be forced to switch its behaviour of storing files in the futures

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