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Dropbox StaffBeta Build 148.3.4469
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Did it work successfully - I now have 2 versions of my dropbox on my computer and concerned about removing either of them.
App has been stuck at syncing for over 24 hrs
Well, I simply removed Dropbox from my Mac altogether.
For the time being, I’ll keep the subscription (my personal one, and my company’s), and I’ll use https://cloudmounter.net/ to mount Dropbox as a virtual file system (which is slow but works), and will manually copy files. I do share files with my team via Dropbox but fortunately, it’s low-volume traffic — we typically update a few files a week there. We use Github for most work, and we’ve mostly used Dropbox to share larger files, with the convenience of quickly getting a public shareable link.
But it looks to me that the new File Provider API-based Dropbox will be a disaster. Beta or not, I’m not talking about minor issues here — but the complete lack of usability. After having read all I could on this forum and in other places, Dropbox has also failed to adequately inform users about this change. There’s hardly any technical or in-depth information, just some platitudes.
It looks to me that in the past few years, Dropbox has bloated their product palette with things I’ve never needed, but they failed to keep the quality of what I once thought was their core business (or used to be). The company had $2 billion in revenue and over $335 net income. Seems to be that they should have spent considerably more on developers to work on the Mac desktop integration — rather than publishing horrific beta versions long after Apple has released their macOS 12.3. I know Apple has been difficult, they don’t give developers enough notice in advance about the changes they will do in their OS — yet they’ve announced the move away from kernel extensions in 2019, that’s three years ago.
I’ve asked my teammates to actively look for a different solution altogether, and I’ll be cancelling all our Dropbox subscriptions as soon as we’ve migrated the files to a new solution.
Adam,
Thanks for posting that. Same thing over here. There's more I want to add that I think can be constructive and/or helpful as well, and if the "but what's the **bleep**ing point" part of that thought goes away, maybe I even will. If not, I'm glad there's something clear and well-structured for me to co-sign.
Let it be known now and for the rest of time that I didnt actually type "bleeping", I used a grownup word that they changed. Which is fine.
Full disclosure I have, however, been thinking of Michael Cera saying "samesies" in Superbad ever since I wrote "co-sign."
Several things. First off, selective sync has never meant create offline copies of the files. It just means which folders you want synced. If you (in the older version of the client) started everything online-only you'd get selective synced online-only copies.
Secondly, pretty sure the cloud icon is controlled by the operating system, not Dropbox. It is part of the File Provider API. If you have iCloud Drive enabled you will see exactly the same icon and you can right-click on a file with that icon in iCloud Drive and do "download now".
Lastly, as part of that API files will generally start in online-only status until you either open them up or mark them as being available offline. Thats part of how FileProvider works. The bigger problem here, as noted in a post in this thread, is that Dropbox is providing absolutely no guidance on how this is supposed to work, which is ridiculous. I can't believe the company is operating this way. You'd think its two guys in their basement doing this stuff.
Fortunately for me I have not experienced some of the issues others are. Sounds even worse than what I'm seeing, by a lot.
