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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 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...
georgedavies that's horrible. This has to be fixed ASAP from Dropbox!
Megan this bug georgedavies mentioned has to be forwarded to the dev team (as well as all the feedback here on the new CloudStorage Directory)...
- To add to the woes.
I have 4 machines all syncing Dropbox. 1 has OneDrive as well that has been the discussion below.
This machine stores a local/offline full copy of all DropBox and OneDrive data.
OneDrive has done a flawless job of syncing and storing a full copy of the drive to the machine.
DropBox has had the issues already mentioned and now I am at the stage of rebuilding the full offline DropBox to the machine. It’s been quite a tedious process and far from efficient.
The overnight DropBox download to convert from online to offline has taken an eternity and has resulted in a patchwork of on & offline files. I have been doing a variety of DropBox and machine re-starts, manually going to the online files and clicking to make them offline.
It’s a bit of a mess and has consumed a lot of time.
I’m still not there and this has taken several days of my life I won’t get back.
I am more astonished that Microsoft has their app working very well on an Apple platform and DropBox hasn’t.Any Update on this topic?...
I checked out MountainDuck using my external Storage and it works fine, it even has the feature to create share-links from the right-click menu. Looks like a very good alternative to the official dropbox client.
Still no update-notification to the latest version for me though
