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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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BBGun987's avatar
BBGun987
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

THIS is why I've been reading through all of the messages here. I kept thinking why not put an Alias or Symlink back in the Home directory? It could solve all the problems with expected paths. I'm a developer and keep all of my active projects on Dropbox. No, I'm not going to change all of the paths for my various projects. Ridiculous! Why doesn't the Dropbox installer perform this Symlink? I might stop saying no to the new version now. THANK YOU

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theviewer1985
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

I've been following this thread for months. Checking back at random to see if there are any fixes.

 

It's beginning to seem like there is a workaround now? Although I am confused what it is... I am seeing some people mention symlinks (although surely something this simple would have been thought of at the beginning of this 'upgrade'?)

 

And others talking about moving your whole home folder... which seems plausible if you have a big SSD. Although I'd be afraid of what happens if you unplug the ssd by mistake - will the computer explode into dust or will it just require plugging back in and everything carries on?

 

In either case, symlink or moving home folders - can someone give instructions on how to do them?

 

Thanks

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