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capellifabio
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago
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Dropbox latest update & location

Hey everyone. I just saw the latest update for OSX and I am extremely afraid. They are saying the main dropbox folder will change location and path.  I have multiple machines and projects synced wi...
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  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
    3 years ago

    Thanks for taking the time to post here today, capellifabio.

     

    Indeed, as part of the Dropbox for macOS update, the Dropbox folder must be located in ~/Library/CloudStorage

     

    There's no way around this at this time, as this is an update that will need to happen sooner or later, but we appreciate your feedback about this.

     

    You can take a look at some more info on what to expect with the update and any possible limitations here.

     

    Let us know if you have any questions.

capellifabio's avatar
capellifabio
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

Hey Hannah, thanks for your reply. 

 

I can't believe I am the only one facing this problem? nobody else brought it up? 

 

I mean the only alternatives I see at the moment are either I don't upgrade dropbox ever again, or I move to another cloud storage that can backup the dropbox folder I have now without having to move it? 

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markus_4x4
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

In my case Dropbox won't start at all after updating to the most recent version, where the Dropbox folder is moved to the new cloud storage location. It worked for some time but suddenly it stopped working. I'm on Monterey 12.6.3 and as long as the former Dropbox version is supported, I won't update. With the traditional installation everything works as usual. But the update is somewhat unstable at the moment.

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