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Downloading Dropbox to my older mac
Dont give a **bleep** leave me alone
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I've been loyally using this website for years and for them to basically be like you aren't important as a user any more because you don't have the latest tech, is a load of bull.That's not it, at all. Having to support older operating systems holds back development. Your old, no longer supported (by Apple) operating system isn't capable of running the developing technologies that Dropbox will use into the future. As they improve their product to use newer technologies, older systems that can't support those technologies are left behind. That's just how it is, with any software company.
You didn't specify the version of OS X you're running, but the latest of the versions no longer supported by Dropbox, OS X 10.8, hasn't been supported by Apple since Autumn of 2015. If you're no longer getting updates from the creator of an operating system, how can you expect other companies to continue supporting it. This is simply the price you pay by using older systems and software, and that doesn't even take security issues into account.
Sorry to say it, but you'll eventually be left behind if you don't keep up with the times.
"whatever antique OS you're running" in that case we're talking about mac ox 10.9 ( latest upgrade in september 2014 ) - an antique ? It would be easy to Dropbox to maintain the 10.9 version "as is" without the new features in 10.10.
On one of my computers I use Mac OSX 10.6.8 - Snow Leopard which has the features I most like.
"Out of date" it is, but when most people say that the newer systems "have more features" or are "more advanced," what is REALLY happening in the computer world is that they allow more advertising and income .... make all files huge, and slow everything down!
Sure there are security issues, but advanced secuurity could be added to the older systems with much less hassle thatlthat needed for the advertising cookies etc. that go into your computer -- unnecessary without all those clients wanting access.
I fully understand the concept of supported features relying on a specific version of an OS. But... dropbox is a cloudservice which has supported clients for in the meantime deprecated OSX versions in the past. So what I don't completely understand is why a deprecated but still working version can't have basic functionality supported as it has in the past, even if there's been a complete server-side rewrite: there has been a working implementation in the past, so it shouldn't be that hard to keep them side by side, providing basic access to storage space in the cloud as a very basic feature. I guess it's fully understandable that not all (latest greatest) features can be supported, but to completely cut off working version from one day to the other seems a bit harsh,, so maybe side by side existence of deprecated old-style support and latest greatest client would have been possible. There are some reasons that could raise concerns, one of which of course would be vulnerability and security issues.. but wouldn't those be issues on OS level? Anyway: basic support for outdated systems would have been very welcomed.
Agreed. I don't even care about the "app" nor the UI (user interface). I just want my files to be backed up "automagically." I'm running `dropboxd` on a Linux system (dropbox.com/install-linux), and just having that up-n-running to support the service is all I really want for my Snow Leopard PPC MBP. :P
