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Request regarding MacOS X 10.10 (Yosemite) & 10.11 (El Capitan)
I just received a notice that dropbox will cease support for OS 10.10 and 10.11.
The notice, giving it the most leeway i can, indicated that i should consider upgrading my OS or use a web brows...
Hi justmeinNJ & Chern - thanks for dropping by our Community to share your feedback on this.
As you probably know, as of October 17th 2022, the Dropbox desktop app will no longer work on any Mac device running OS X 10.11 or older.
If you do not wish to or cannot update your operating system, all your files will still be available through other compatible computers with supported operating systems, through supported mobile devices, and on the Dropbox website. However, on October 17th, 2022, devices running Mac OS X 10.11 or older will no longer be able to log in and access content through the Dropbox desktop app.
Kindly note that we regularly release new versions of the Dropbox desktop app with additional features, better performance, and security enhancements and these are not always compatible with older systems.
Apple stopped providing security updates to OS X 10.10 and OS X 10.11 in 2017 and 2018 respectively.
We are ending our support of the Dropbox desktop app for these operating systems to keep our product offerings in-line.
Let me know if you have anything else to add or ask.
Walter
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHi justmeinNJ & Chern - thanks for dropping by our Community to share your feedback on this.
As you probably know, as of October 17th 2022, the Dropbox desktop app will no longer work on any Mac device running OS X 10.11 or older.
If you do not wish to or cannot update your operating system, all your files will still be available through other compatible computers with supported operating systems, through supported mobile devices, and on the Dropbox website. However, on October 17th, 2022, devices running Mac OS X 10.11 or older will no longer be able to log in and access content through the Dropbox desktop app.
Kindly note that we regularly release new versions of the Dropbox desktop app with additional features, better performance, and security enhancements and these are not always compatible with older systems.
Apple stopped providing security updates to OS X 10.10 and OS X 10.11 in 2017 and 2018 respectively.
We are ending our support of the Dropbox desktop app for these operating systems to keep our product offerings in-line.
Let me know if you have anything else to add or ask.
Yep, I too want to use an older version of the Dropbox Mac Desktop App which is compatible with MacOS X 10.11.6 El Capitan. For this to be possible would not require a thing on Dropbox's development team's part, but to simply leave it alone & refrain from blocking the older Dropbox Desktop versions from being able to connect & sync with our online Dropbox accounts. Be it theoretically becoming more vulnerable as it may, what hackers would want to waste their precious time & efforts on frugal peeps such as those of us pathetically trying to persuade you sophisticated folks there at Dropbox HQ to leave the legacy software gates open? I don't think they'll stay motivated after hacking into .07cent card accounts. Even the malware bots wouldn't touch our identities with a 10nanometer pole which is substantial for a virtual entity. I guess this is all futile banter. Although I pretty much used Dropbox 97% of the time, I just remembered I have all those other large file transfer apps that I almost never put to use, such as Hightail, Box, SendFile, Droplr, CloudApp, DropCloud, etc. Maybe one of these delinquents will still be functional. Anyhoo, I should have purchased the M1 infused MacMini when I had the chips. Box was actually pretty slick I remember the couple times I utilized it. Well, farewell & I hope we all are able to transform our ways on this living mothership for a more harmonic net-being where the self-sustaining individual is uniquely recognized and conversely resonates with natural contribution to the collective cosmological super-organism. Visceral & virtual mycelial auras in-mesh dissolving dimensionality and toroidally omni-vector an infinite godhead lattice where imagination & exploration meet archaic memory to become the engine for creation, beauty, & novelty towards the numinous unknown.
