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johnhalldesign
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1 year ago

What is the best way to upgrade to Mac Sonoma and Dropbox File Provider?

So been avoiding making any changes for over a year now since things have been working relatively well with the Old Dropbox on two Macs running OS Ventura 13.5, even with the issues around online-onl...
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1 year ago

That's correct, clicking that option will begin the migration. When switching to File Provider, make sure to mark the entire Dropbox folder as available offline, since files will return to being online-only if your Mac runs out of space.

 

A resyncing of files, or at least re-indexing, is expected, but shouldn't take too long.

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johnhalldesign
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1 year ago
When switching to File Provider, make sure to mark the entire Dropbox folder as available offline, since files will return to being online-only if your Mac runs out of space.

Thanks, one clarification on the above.  Not sure I want to force EVERYTHING to be available offline, cause i may not have enough space for that.  But I'd like things to stay as they are, so if they are local now, I'd like them to stay that way, but of they are currently online-only they can stay that way.  Will that happen if I don't select the option to make the whole Dropbox available offline?

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