MacOS 13.0 Ventura, and Dropbox follows OneDrive in forcing the folder on the system drive

treeandrew
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago
Hi All,

Just reporting whether the steps I took did address my original concern - the complete absence of the green "synchronised" indicators on my Dropbox folders under Ventura, and seeing whether relocating the Dropbox folder into the recommended Home Profile location would resolve that. Well the news is both good and bad ...
Firstly, having moved the location of my Dropbox folder into the "recommended" location - inside my external SSD based Home Profile folder and re-syncing, the performance is great - despite the tedious requirement to resync completely.
At first I thought that it hadn't fixed the sync indicators situation at all, but today, I started noticing that they were "re-appearing" - at the "leaf" nodes of the very substantial set of files I have - i.e. at the documents within the lowest level of the folder tree.
Then as I progressed up those trees, with all files downloaded and local, the directories the indicators "percolated" up the tree.
That is until you get to the very top-level of the folders directly under my Dropbox Folder ... they never seem to show a green indicator, even though every folder under them, is showing a green indicator.
So I'm not sure whether that is something that will resolve itself over time, as the sync indicators appearing sometime post the initial re-syncing did ... I'll wait and see. At least seeing the sync indicators at the lower levels is part way to what I was hoping to achieve.
- Walter
  Dropbox Community Moderator
  4 years ago
  Hey treeandrew, could you send us a screenshot of the app's exact status as shown in your menu bar at the moment?
  
  Is it 'up to date' or still syncing perhaps?
  - treeandrew
    Helpful | Level 6
    4 years ago
    Hey Walter,
    
    No, it's been up to date for several days. And I note that the behaviour of the "sync" indicators appearing from the lowest level files seems to be quite inconsistent unfortunately. Here's the screenshot you requested.
    
    Here is another view as I traverse the folder view this morning, which suggests that the "percolation" of the synchronised status "up the folder tree" has "stalled" somehow?
    Note how the sync indicators are only present for some of the folders at a particular level, however if I select any of those folders not showing the sync indicators, all of the folders and documents below them are synchronised.
    So the behaviour is certainly not consistent.