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Emanuele B.'s avatar
Emanuele B.
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

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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georgedavies's avatar
georgedavies
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

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...

TRO_Berlin's avatar
TRO_Berlin
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

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)... 

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