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Sami k's avatar
Sami k
Helpful | Level 5
4 years ago
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Can't put the folder on an external drive on MacOS

 

I chose dropbox just because it gets on an external disk, can't anymore? I'm totally frustrated,
last year 3 months didn't work at all for MacOs ..

desktop
Folders
Mac
sync
  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    3 years ago
    BJRo wrote:

    Why on earth would Dropbox try and force storage of over 100GB of data inside the user /Library directory?

    This isn't Dropbox's doing; it's a new restriction put in place by Apple. Changing the location of your Dropbox folder is no longer supported by macOS.

     

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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
    4 years ago

    Hi Sami k, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

     

    What version of Mac OS are you running, as well as the Dropbox desktop application?

     

    Where is the Dropbox folder currently located on your machine?

     

    This will help me to assist further!

  • Sami k's avatar
    Sami k
    Helpful | Level 5
    4 years ago

    Monterey 12.3.1

    Normally my dropbox is SSD external storage.

    Now it is in macbook?? i cant move it? "This version of macOS reguires dropbox folders to be stored here"

  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
    4 years ago

    Could you confirm the exact folder location for the Dropbox folder on your Mac?

  • Sami k's avatar
    Sami k
    Helpful | Level 5
    4 years ago
    It is ”librery” folder MacBook
  • Sami k's avatar
    Sami k
    Helpful | Level 5
    4 years ago

    Users/samikontto/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox

  • hmedia's avatar
    hmedia
    Collaborator | Level 8
    4 years ago

    Hey Rich, do you mind quoting the reason ?  That forum link is access denied to us regular peasants 🙂 

     

     

  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
    3 years ago
    hmedia wrote:

    do you mind quoting the reason ?  That forum link is access denied to us regular peasants

    It's a newer restriction from the latest versions of macOS. Simply put, it's controlled by macOS; not Dropbox.

  • DenniF1's avatar
    DenniF1
    Explorer | Level 4
    3 years ago

    Just updated my macos to 12.5 for security reasons and it moved my main dropbox folder to my internal hard drive and won't allow me to keep it on my external drive. This is ridiculous!  I don't have the space internally!  This has be to fixed

  • BJRo's avatar
    BJRo
    New member | Level 2
    3 years ago

    Why on earth would Dropbox try and force storage of over 100GB of data inside the user /Library directory? How to fix this? With symbolic links? Help! Any advice? Was working fine before stored in a custom location under the within the user folder but in a different directory.

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