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wwmiller3
Helpful | Level 6
5 years ago
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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...
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  • Emmet's avatar
    Emmet
    4 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.

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JOfE
Experienced | Level 11
5 years ago

I agree. 

But Adobe gets my vote for worst of the worst.

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Wvp
Helpful | Level 6
5 years ago

JOfE I agree.. Adobe's way of distributing app is the worst I have ever seen.. they bundle so much crap into their Creative Cloud installation it is unbelievable. You cannot even disable their Sync service :(. I still have a Creative Cloud subscription, but I am evaluating the Serif Affinity products. The only Adobe software I would like to keep using is Lightroom CC and I can use this as a separate application which is also native Apple Silicon.

 

A have been evaluating a lot of sync services lately and Dropbox still is one of the better experiences, especially on MacOS. I'm a bit hesitant on using Google Drive because of the compatibility issues with specific MacOS files (file bundles). This is the same with OneDrive. Dropbox seems to be the beste supported Cloud storage for many MacOS developers.

 

I just do not like the way Dropbox sometimes (does not) respond to certain questions like in this case the Apple Silicon native support. The development seems very focussed on business users and less on personal use. Things like workspaces, focus on sharing files etc. is al very nice but it is not optional.

 

I tried Dropbox Paper to see if I could get more value out of this, but it does not integrate well and performance is not very good.. development also seems slow for Paper. There is a Beta desktop application (but it seems unsupported?), which is just a wrapper for the web application, but it is horrible to use.

 

Bottom line: If you are working mainly from within Dropbox and using it integrated applications like Zoom, Slack etc. Dropbox does add some value. If you just use it as a way to sync files, have version history and do some file sharing as a personal user it is getting to bloated in my opinion.

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