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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...
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I have had quite a few issues with the latest move in Ventura.
I have OneDrive running as well. When Dropbox moves the 'old' Dropbox folder to CloudStorage it takes over the OneDrive folder and syncs Dropbox to the OneDrive folder.
Oddly it doesnt change the CloudStorage>OneDrive folder name which causes even more confusion. So now both OneDrive and DropBox are merged and start to cross sync to both platforms. A HUGE MESS. Especially when I have to start deleting to separate them out again.
For some reason Dropbox does not create a new subfolder in CloudStorage. And needs to.
Glitch or are others finding this?
Backup My Mac is OFF both for OneDrive and Dropbox.
Ventura 13.2
Dropbox v166.4.2920
WOW, thanks for sharing. Very important to know as I meanwhile use OneDrive as well. I'm sorry for your awful experience. Something like this is exactly what I was afraid of and why I did not really want to wait for the move. Thanks to your info I can take necessary measures to avoid same drama here.
Todays playing has found the following;
If you delete OneDrive from CloudStorage so the folder is empty. Install Dropbox it creates a DropBox folder correctly.
Then re-install OneDrive and it will create a new OneDrive folder correctly in CloudStorage alongside the OneDrive folder.
OneDrive and Dropbox then seem to behave nicely.
So this is a DropBox installer problem and needs fixing. I think...
Correcting typos
Todays playing has found the following;
If you delete OneDrive from CloudStorage so the folder is empty. Install Dropbox it creates a DropBox folder correctly.
Then re-install OneDrive and it will create a new OneDrive folder correctly in CloudStorage alongside the DropBox folder.
OneDrive and Dropbox then seem to behave nicely.
So this is a DropBox installer problem and needs fixing. I think...
