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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.
Guys, you have Maestral an Open source Dropbox client. 5 times less RAM consumption than the official app and MacOS built: Maestral
Just try it and thank the people behind it (not Dropbox)
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.
