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Is LAN sync functional on the Mac OS version of Dropbox? How can I tell it is working?
Hello,
I have a drobox of about 800gb and when I added a Macbook Pro 2015 to dropbox it has been syncing for about 5 days and still has 750gb to go. My M1 Macbook Pro on the same hardwired network...
Hi Mark E.29,
LAN Sync is no more supported on Mac (scroll down to "LAN Sync is currently not supported on Dropbox for macOS." line in the table) once Dropbox started using Mac specific (and provided by Apple) sync engine and left their own. 🤷 That's it.
Hope this clarifies matter.
Здравко Thanks so much for pointing this out. I believe I am still running an older version of dropbox... since my files are not in the ~/Library/CloudStorage location. I wish that post had a date on it... and mentioned the version numbers, etc
I guess I will have to do some sort of local file transfer to get things going.
Dropbox seems to be dropping the ball by dropping features left and right
Mark
Yeah, this is a brutal limitation on Dropbox's end for macOS. I surely hope it can be worked around, or at the very least I'd hope to see some clear indication that LAN Sync is not going to work within the application itself on macOS.
Bootstrapping a new system now consumes half of my network quota for the month, and I'm only at ~500GB of my 2TB plan. That is hard to stomach when the data is all here, on my network, with 2.5GbE hardwired lines between everything.
What does Support have to say about this workaround:
1. Disable Dropbox's daemon on my new system2. `rsync` the directory from my old system to the proper location on my new system
3. Hope Dropbox recognizes everything as "in position", and re-enable the daemon on the new system?
For Dropbox's feature team, y'all could probably implement a similar approach where Dropbox simply runs a bulk copy under the hood and shows a status bar. Call it a "New system local bootstrap" user flow or something and stick it under "Preferences > Advanced" for those who really need the full throughput of local LAN sync on macOS.
