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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...
I contacted pCloud and Sync.com to ask why they are still NOT using ~/Library/CloudStorage and if they probably use an own API instead. The reply by pCloud reads as follows: "...Although I do not know the exact deliberations of the development team, we are indeed not beholden to that change, as we make use of the MacFUSE software as File Provider. We are looking at elimination this additional piece of software, this this will happen further down in the future...".
Indeed pCloud creates a virtual folder in the user directory instead, but I have no idea if this complies to Apple's requirements on a long term.
However, using Fuse might be a solution for those Dropbox users who need their Dropbox folder somewhere other than ~/Library/CloudStorage. This could probably also be achieved using Cloudmounter.net. Just mentioning this as an additional input...
Feedback from Sync.com will follow...
Feedback from Sync.com regarding the implementation of Apple's new API requirements: "...We are aware of this on our end, and an update is on our roadmap as we monitor further updates from Apple..."
