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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...
Michael S.197 wrote:The instructions answer this:
- Important: We assume that your Dropbox folder is in the default pathway. If you have placed your Dropbox folder in a custom location, replace all ~/Dropbox with the full location of your Dropbox folder in quotation marks. For example, if you have your Dropbox folder in the path /Volumes/DifferentPlace/Dropbox, you need to replace ~/Dropbox from the following instructions to "/Volumes/DifferentPlace/Dropbox".
It looks to me as if these are instructions for the old version of Dropbox, not the new version.
You can still run the old version of Dropbox on Ventura, but who knows for home much longer this will be possible?
I was thinking the same.
And this method with the old software would still lack the automatic sync of offline files when linked within an Adobe InDesign or Illustrator file.
And once the newer version of DB rolls out, this trick will likely explode in your face when the mandatory library location is enforced.
