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MacOS 13.0 Ventura, and Dropbox follows OneDrive in forcing the folder on the system drive
With Monterey, OneDrive implemented the new apis from Apple for online syncing that demanded its main location be a specific folder on the system drive. 8 months later, the MacOS community section of...
Megan
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHi Emanuele B., thanks for reaching out about this.
Thank you for your feedback.
As with any operating system, macOS is updated regularly and with that we must keep the Dropbox desktop app aligned with any requirements set out by an OS.
Keeping aligned to those requirements ensures that the Dropbox desktop app will provide the best possible experience for all our customers in to the future.
Weâll be sure to pass your feedback along to our Product team.
Thank you.
Hello, and thanks for replying.
Keeping aligned will ensure the continued existence of Dropbox on macOS, but as for the âbest possible experienceâ, I mean yes, emphasis on âpossibleâ as in âthe one that is allowed to beâ, and i realize Dropbox had limited pushback in this or we wouldnât be in this situation, but I tell you, I will not spend thousands of euros to get a Mac with a larger internal drive just so i can run the cloud service that Iâm already paying for fully local.
This is going to end in tears for a lot of people.
Any chance you can elaborate here? I'm on the latest version of Monterey. I only care about one subfolder (approx 80gbs) to be 100% offline. All the others can stay off my device unless specifically called upon. That's how dropbox is operating currently. Would this change if I upgraded to ventura?
I donât know, do you have enough space on the system drive to hold these 80GBs and more? Because while I assume the client will keep having an option to designate files and folders as always available offline, the fact of the matter is that the cloud management API of macOS will have the last say and may offload some files to the cloud to make room for others if it deems it necessary, and if the experience with OneDrive which Microsoft adapted to this API already with Monterey is anything to go by, control over oneâs files will become an uncertain thing at best. I just have a Windows machine to keep a local copy on both cloud services, because itâs clear Apple is so sold on the idea of files on-demand that they wonât let you have it on their systems.
Ahhh, understood. This is very helpful! Yeah I've never liked how iCloud handled offline storage. You seem to abdicating a great amount of control to Apple. Shame essentially all cloud storage systems will have to fold into this system. Appreciate the help, brother.
drop box will essentially work as it currently does for you, although your Mac is going to be a little 'fuller' than it needs to be. The main issue arrises for people who need local/downloaded/ready-to-use files that are collectively larger than their system drive. so many people use an external drive for DB location because they have 2TB or 8Tb of video files for example and need them available to use in projects, but local internal drive is very rarely that large and empty.
