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Kronisk
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago
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Where is the new Library subfolder in MacOS that Dropbox switched to?

So I updated as urged by Dropbox, and now the link to the folder that automatically syncs to the server is gone from my Finder windows. Which is a problem when you consider that I cannot find the fol...
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  • Здравко's avatar
    Здравко
    4 years ago
    Kronisk wrote:

    ... The one clue I have is that due to security or OS changes, the Dropbox required folder is now somewhere in the hidden Library folder, the location of doom for users who are not confident.

    Hi Kronisk,

    Yes, you are correct; the new (now mandatory) Dropbox folder location is ~/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox, previous default location was ~/Dropbox. 😉

    Hope this clarifies matter.

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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
4 years ago
Kronisk wrote:

... The one clue I have is that due to security or OS changes, the Dropbox required folder is now somewhere in the hidden Library folder, the location of doom for users who are not confident.

Hi Kronisk,

Yes, you are correct; the new (now mandatory) Dropbox folder location is ~/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox, previous default location was ~/Dropbox. 😉

Hope this clarifies matter.

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Kronisk
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

Thank you! It was exactly where you said it would be. 🙂 It seems so simple when you know, too.

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