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ehahn9's avatar
ehahn9
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Switched to Mac File Provider API version (174.4.5852) - now continually "syncing 6 files"

Hi! Hope someone can help me. Amongst the many problems with the new Mac FPAPI version, this one is a deal-breaker and I can't seen to figure out what's going on...   My otherwise idle system cyc...
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bigzarelli's avatar
bigzarelli
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

The new file provider version of Dropbox is trash. I need to move my Dropbox folder to a new drive as I now need to sync more files. M1 Mac... guess what, I can't upgrade my hard drive. It's about as useful as a chocolate teapot.

 

And the upgrade process caused my Mac to have a fit of the vapours as, rather than move the files, you duplicated everything. Cue hours of late-night diagnosis of what was happening.

 

I want to downgrade so I can move my Dropbox folder and sync to an external drive. How do I do this? Or, if not, what alternatives are there to Dropbox? I already use Backblaze for a different purpose.

 

Tired of trying to resolve this, only to find out what the changes were... that, frankly, upon reflection, were pretty much forced upon me without any indication of the downsides of making the upgrade. I'm now not a happy long-time Dropbox customer; I signed up as a paid customer on 18th March 2011, and up until this update, Dropbox has never got in my way.

 

Seamless my ass.

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