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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.
Well im no expert but I like the current version as its right there in my finder. Available whether i am online or not. Synced to all my other apple devices. Its not hidden in some obscure directory and possibly going to my apple cloud. Plus a lot of my other apple devices have old ios versions so the new dropbox version may cause a bunch of issues i can do without. Ill read up some more. Maybe its time to drop dropbox and go with apple cloud drive. Looks like its the same as the new dropbox roll out
It's still right there in Finder--now appears under "Locations" in the Sidebar. (If by chance you don't see it, you might need to check "Cloud Storage" in Finder Preferences / Sidebar.)
Still syncs to other devices just like before.
Doesn't do unwanted sync to iCloud.
Since I didn't have my Dropbox folder on an external drive, it's worked fine for me. My biggest problem with the update is the horrible job Dropbox Support has done of providing documentation about it. There are a few settings you have to know how to check and then set, after which everything works fine. But they don't have a document that clearly explains this.
My biggest problem is new files are not marked as off-line. I share my account across 2 laptops, 1 desktop, 2 tablets, 1 phone - all Apple. Plus, one folder is shared with my husband's Dropbox account. I have taken the precaution of creating a top level folder called My Dropbox and slowly moved all my other folders under that. They are all marked as available off-line. I hope, based upon what I have read here, that will work the way I need once I am forced into the update via an OS update.
After the move, make sure that all top level folders are marked as offline. (The setting might change during the move--that happened with me.) The offline setting should then propagate all the way down. It's possible that all your files & folders will need to do a one-time re-download after the move--that happened with me.
Thanks, Robert. I'm putting this off for as long as I can!
