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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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FidarStrange
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago

What did you migrate to? 

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jwlimages
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago

"What did you migrate to?"

 

-- I was migrating from OSX Mojave to Monterey. Quite a jump, as it turned out.

 

I ended up wiping the disk, starting over completely. I discovered that in fact I had not caused the renaming of the Home folder/smaller User Name - that may have been related to my migrating across numerous OSX upgrades.

 

I solved the Dropbox issue by deleting anything related to Dropbox immediately after creating my boot drive, then changing the 'short name' of my Home folder, and only then re-installing Dropbox. All good now!

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