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_robin_
4 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Apple Silicon (M1) Desktop Sync Compatibility
Please can you upgrade the Dropbox app so that it works natively on Apple Silicon Macs (M1) without Rosetta.
Rosetta is not an option as it annihilates the battery.
This may be a duplicat...
- 3 years ago
Hi all,
Native Apple silicon support is now fully available. All users with Apple silicon devices will receive the native version of Dropbox automatically. If you would like to update your device manually, you can do so by clicking on the latest Stable Build and downloading the Offline Installer (Apple Silicon) file. For more information, visit the Dropbox Help Center.If you need assistance with anything else, please feel free to create a new thread and our community team will be happy to assist.
Grant6
4 years agoHelpful | Level 7
As Iâm selling my Intel-based MacBook Pro, as of today I have 7 âdesktopâ computers. Exactly one of them runs Dropbox natively (but poorly because itâs an Ubuntu box). The rest of my âdesktopsâ are ARM based or arenât powerful enough (Surface Go) to install the desktop version. The rest of the desktops are a combination of Raspberry Piâs, M1 Macs, and a Surface Pro X. Dropbox will fully run only on the two Macs (using Rosetta), will run a not-useful-enough Dropbox for S Mode on the two Surfaces, and wonât run at all on the Raspberry Piâs (although I can in theory sync using a third party open source app ârcloneâ). Since my ecosystem is thoroughly grounded in Dropbox Pro, what this practically means is that I have little hooks set up, sometimes using rsync to my Mac Mini M1, sometimes using OneDrive, sometimes using Resilio Sync (which is rapidly gaining traction as it runs on the Macs and Raspberry Pis and doesnât require an external service). I donât have a complete replacement for Dropbox yet, but its usefulness is being rapidly eroded by lack of support for my devices, which are all ARM but two.
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