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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 should be available in the latest installer. However, trying that plus the latest beta build all ask me to install Rosetta during installation. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Warren
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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The dropbox app on my MBA M1 took 1.5 GB from my RAM while it sits idle for more than an hour. Will follow up with a screenshot.
I uninstalled mine that I got using the default online installer and tried the recommended offline installation. The dropbox app alone still took about the same amount of RAM even if it's not syncing.
RAM consumed while idle
And from today we have also Adobe Illustrator ready for M1:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/illustrator-for-apple-silicon.html
- Installed it first thing this morning. And if Adobe can have a number of their most complex apps ready for M1, then…
In all fairness, though, Adobe bloated their Creative Cloud app with so much extra functionality, in a similar fashion as Dropbox did with their Sync client app, that Adobe has also yet to produce a beta for M1 that allows their M1 apps to be installed on a system without Rosetta 2. Kinda ironic, me thinks, when the Sync client, or in Adobe’s case the install client, become more complex than the application(s) itself. Sorry JOfE, there's nothing 'deranged' about people not renewing a subscription for a product that's no longer meeting their needs. Thats... thats pretty silly, dude. At least they bothered to leave a reply here so that if Dropbox cares, they can see why.
I finally realized today that the memory issues I've been having on my M1 MacMini are due to a memory-hungry DropBox....just like others in this forum have noted. CleanMyMac keeps alerting me that DropBox is RAM-Heavy....it's using 2.5Gb of RAM just sitting idle. I am hoping one of these days DropBox will fix this as I rely on, perhaps too heavily, DropBox for all my day-to-day files. Fortunately, I also have a local hard drive and another cloud service back up since it's not good to rely on just one.
Last week I "un-subscribed" to "dropbox premium" or whatever-the-heck-name they're calling it now.
Uninstalling.
Keeping the "free" tier for my iPhone - cos Apple ensures it runs correctly...but that's all!
I moved to iCloud Drive and have ZERO complaints!
I wasn't suggesting it was deranged to for a customer to leave a product that didn't suit theirs needs. That would be an odd thing to say. I'd still be on CoralDRAW.
My point is that a product's development follows the needs of the majority of its customers. Threaten or leave all you want.
- I would like to express my interest in this getting done as well. And they better do it soon… or at least announce that it’s coming. Otherwise I will be hitting copy and paste right into iCloud waiting a few hours and immediately unsubscribing.
Well the dropbox app sucks big time now on my M1 and uninstalled it. It consumed +4GB of RAM and it failed to properly sync 2 files to my Mac which is under 10GB that I had to wait for more than 24 hours to complete through a 50 Mbps connection. The ETA kept changing from a few minutes up to "n" number of days LOL.
Can't wait to migrate out of Dropbox very soon and never look back.
