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Emanuele B.'s avatar
Emanuele B.
Helpful | Level 6
4 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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dom burgess's avatar
dom burgess
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago

This is an AWFUL idea. I work for a media company of nearly 100 people, all using Dropbox.  We have a giant Dropbox of about 100TB (yes, TB...not a typo). Due to the large file sizes we use, we HAVE to use external drives and this change makes Dropbox unusable for us. I highly suspect we will be moving to a different service. 

 

After all the money we've given Dropbox, this is a huge disappointment. 

 

dandid's avatar
dandid
Helpful | Level 7
3 years ago

have you read this from another thread here..>>

 

However a Reddit user came up with a possible workaround:

"It is linked to your home user folder location. If you move your home folder to an external drive, dropbox goes with it. And for that matter, so do google drive, one drive, box etc."

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