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ShanaC
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

Take Dropbox out of Mac Library

The Dropbox upgrade moved the dropbox files to my  ~/Library/CloudStorage/ --- but I can't save any files to that folder.    All the online instructions say "do the advanced reinstallation per th...
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Rich's avatar
Rich
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4 years ago
Hannah wrote:

Did you manage to try the advanced reinstall steps, to see if they help?

Hannah, why would an advanced reinstall work in this case? Their goal is to move Dropbox out of the Library/CloudStorage folder, but moving the Dropbox folder is no longer supported on macOS. Are you suggesting that an advanced reinstall will allow them to bypass a restriction that was put in place by Apple?

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Andrew Parker
Helpful | Level 7
4 years ago

Bingo Rich, without the option of moving Dropbox out of the user library, it is useless to us.

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