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Dropbox Apple Silicon (M1) install
Hi,
I recently purchased a MacBook Pro 13" with the M1 processor and I cannot seem to get a native install of Dropbox for this chipset. From searching the community, it seems like M1 support sh...
Hi all,
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My entry-level M1 MacBook Air was delivered today.
One of the first things I do on a new machine is to install dropbox. I was crestfallen to learn that there is no native M1 port yet.
On this 8GB machine, Dropbox v117.4.378 is by far the heaviest RAM user: According to Activity Monitor, it's currently using just over 2GB !
I can understand that such a port is not a straight-forward undertaking, but could someone from Dropbox perhaps supply information on when such a thing might become available for testing?
Daphne
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHey Charl B.!
At the moment, we don't have any info on this to share, but thank you for sharing your interest in this.
If there are any updates, we'll make sure to keep you posted - thanks!
At the moment, we don't have any info on this to share, but thank you for sharing your interest in this.
If there are any updates, we'll make sure to keep you posted - thanks!
Honestly, the lack of an update for native M1 support has lead to me finally cancelling my Dropbox Plus subscription after 7 years. The desktop app has gotten incredibly intrusive and slow, and at this point doesn't really do anything I need that iCloud doesn't. End of an era!
I have a MacBook Air with 8GB ram and concur that Dropbox is a hog. Would a native M1 version help reduce memory usage? If so I really hope Dropbox is going to release one. As others have stated if Dropbox gets to be too hungry with memory I'll need to consider alternatives. Perhaps there are tips to cut back on memory? Maybe selective syncing out stuff would help?
Same here. Dropbox has become a fat boring product that doesn't move or advance. All I want is file sync not weird apps that don't do anything. And not running natively on M1 after a half year is inexcusable.
My subscription will run out in two months. Have cancelled.
Please get it done already, running natively on Apple Silicon is a must moving forwards
+1000
Yes, we are in the same boat, it's very disappointing. Contacting Dropbox support on 3 occasions and being passed to different members of the team, nobody knows what M1 Mac is, nobody knows what "native" is and they all just send me to a page that explains how to reduce CPU use. Really terrible support experience.
Just a quick note to add me to the list of Mac users that would like to see a M1 native Dropbox app.
Estou esperando essa atualização pois gostaria de utilizar o Dropbox no Windows no Parallels M1
Drop box is a memory hog on my brand new Apple Macbook Pro M1. It's the only important app I'm using that still runs under emulation and is not native. After many years of being a fan, I started looking around for alternatives as there is no roadmap of getting an ARM native solution that is more efficient.
The main Dropbox process is taking up 1,2GB of RAM when it is doing nothing, and look at how many other subprocesses!
I dont know about the audience that Dropbox is targeting but just because of the fact that more product pictures are presented with the „macos style of things“ i‘d say that mac users are more important to dropbox than windows users. Why doesnt dropbox just add m1 support then? Shouldnt it be easy to do with an update of xcode?
All the „problems of rosetta 2“ put aside, users that actually need a service like dropbox need a long term perspective and solution. Rosetta 2, as Rosetta (1) was aswell, is just meant to be a temporary solution. It should help with the transition to apple silicon macs. What is isnt or shouldnt be is a method to straight up ignore the technology change. Apple said on WWDC 2020 that the transition to apple silicon should take up to two years. One of these years is close being over (after presenting it in june 2020), any compamies including google, microsoft and many more already made the change but nothing can be heard of dropbox other than the fact that they „Dont know yet“.
Dear Dropbox team, please wake up and realize that M1 support is needed for a lot of people, therefore customers but also future customers. And presenting your product with no native support and no big and official statement is not the way a large dompamy hould comunicate with their audience.
Please let customers know what Dropbox's plans are for native support for M1 macs.
It would be great if Dropbox would somehow communicate their strategy of natively supporting Apple Silicon.
Even box.com has made an announcement recently ...
Dear Dropbox,
It would be great if you would come up with an Apple M1 native app. I presume that you're are already working on one but do you have an ETA for us???
I don't think that people are "entitled" when asking for a company that we pay $120/year to update their app to handle Apple's new silicon. I mean Visual Studio Code is a much more complicated app and they release an ARM Mac version in February. That software is free, so why is it so hard for Dropbox to update their PAID software to support this new architecture natively!
Registering my interest for an M1-Native version of Dropbox here too. Please!!! Otherwise I have to leave Dropbox for my business after many years.
did you fx it dropbox?
I see this will be coming some time in the first half of next year.
Any suggestions for an alternative? I have a yearly subscription, but I am quite willing to dump Dropbox to get over this battery draining piece of trash.
Dear Dropbox,
I still own an Intel Mac but Mx processors are the future. Leaving them behind is leaving behind Apple. I can see I was right in cancelling my subscription this year after 10 years of continuous premium plans.
You are no longer a dropbox customer but you came back the dropbox forum to say you are no longer a customer? 🎈
Yes. I saw this on Twitter and I couldn't believe it. And yes I am no longer a PAID customer but thanks to "collaborators" I am even less willing to even keep using DropBox. If Dropbox can't compile for M1 then they should go home.
