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sdkeithk
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

New MAC Dropbox Version - Thumbs down

Well, I hate this. I'm a terminal guy. I do 90% of my work in a terminal. One of the most useful terminal tools, aside from the VI editor, is grep. With grep (piped with awk and sed) I can find and f...
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    sdkeithk
    3 years ago

    MacOS 12.6. I don't know where you find the version of DropBox. It installed a few days ago.

    It looks like you moved the files to the Library directory, which is a little problematic. I can go in and access the files in the ~/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox directory, but I don't like mucking with stuff in Library unless I have to. So, I'll probably create a symbolic link to that directory and do my work in there.

    I liked DropBox just the way it was. I understand the desire for new and improved, but so much SW these days is serious overkill. There should be an option to keep a minimal function set if that's what users want and that's all that they need.

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