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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,
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.
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!
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.
Same here! Dropbox...wake up! M1's are selling like hotcakes! What other laptop will have 20 hour battery life anytime soon?
Same issue here, M1's are selling like hotcakes! What other laptop will have 20 hour battery life anytime soon?
Well, not our Macs either if Dropbox doesn't update their app.
Maestral is indeed a great choice for most of the essential features of Dropbox, but the one glaring omission - at least to my workflow - is that it does not yet support differential copy mode, assuring that only those bits/blocks that were changed are copied again. When you deal with very frequent changes of portions of the same file, which might be many gigabytes in size, whether only a few megabytes of the entirety of the gigabytes are copied does make a huge difference over the course of a day. But for many, if not most, people it can probably more than suffice.
Still, should paying Dropbox users really have to resort to going such a route, one year after the Apple Silicon transition was announced, and one year after a great number of important Mac developers were presenting their solutions for AS the day of the announcement? (it's a rhetorical question, in my mind)
The only way they are able to accomplish this is to compromise security by decrypting your files. I use a lot of large files too, but in light of this I am now considering switching to Sync... particularly given I reside in Canada where our privacy protection laws are much stronger and we are not subject to the provisions of the Patriot Act et al.
Thanks everyone for recommending Maestral. I had not even heard of it before!
Surprising indeed that on my M1 MacBook, the only process still running on Rosetta/Intel is Dropbox. The fact that Adobe lapped Dropbox so long ago says a lot!
