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What happens if I don't update to the new Dropbox for MacOS?
I have Dropbox on my M1 MacMini, M1 Macbook Air, old 2015 MacBook Air (all three on Monterey 12.6.3) as well as my iPad Pro and iPhone 13. On the computers, my DropBox folder is in users/{myname}/Dro...
By default, new files added to the account from the site or another device would sync as online-only on your machine, but you can still mark them as available offline.
Files will still sync as normal, and yes, you'd need to change your aliases if any apps of programs need to locate the Dropbox folder.
Sure, although I have a feeling the post may get deleted by Dropbox
The one I went with is pCloud. They get good reviews and their system seems to work as advertised. They also offer an option for end-to-end encryption among other add-ons.
The other one I liked was Tresorit and I also looked at IDrive. I wanted to get something in place quickly before Dropbox unilaterally upgraded their app and tried to reorganize my hard drive, which would have resulted in a catastrophic mess as there was not enough space on any of my machines. I can't imagine trying to unravel that.
Based on a comparison over a day or so, which is less time than I would normally take for a decision like this, I concluded that pCloud was the best fit for me. So far, it's working out well and I like it a lot.
Dropbox has been around a long time and I expect they're working with legacy systems that that may not be easily modified whereas a lot of the alternatives are much younger companies and have had the opportunity to start from scratch and use up to date technologies and approaches.
Macki wrote:Dropbox has been around a long time and I expect they're working with legacy systems that that may not be easily modified whereas a lot of the alternatives are much younger companies and have had the opportunity to start from scratch and use up to date technologies and approaches.
That's what's so weird about this, though—Apple's whole File Provider API thing hasn't been around long at all, maybe 3-4 years at most IIRC. So any changes Dropbox is making to work with it are brand new, not related to legacy systems.
It seems like what Dropbox could easily do is leave the existing app in place for those of us it works for, and then roll this new, limited File Provider API version only to people who keep some of their files online-only, since those are the only people who seem to have problems with the existing app. But instead they're throwing out the baby with the bathwater and forcing everyone over to this limited version to make their own lives easier.
Dropbox Folks: In all the communications I've seen so far, there has been no indication of what's being "upgraded"--only things that are becoming less easy to use, irksome, and/or more complex for users.
For work I manage customer change communications for large scale, web-based IT projects. As an avid user of Dropbox, I'm not eager for these changes and will avoid them as long as possible. As a professional watching your change communications regarding this, you're failing.
