Dropbox client for ARM (Win/MacOS/Linux)?

[Csansom001]

+1 for Dropbox providing a download for M1 Mac owners that use parallels. Adding to the pile of annoyance lol.

*Dropbox S does not count as its low key useless compared to the services normal Dropbox provides.

[Csansom001]

For those who are still frustrated and unable to find a solution, I have found one. The wild part? It wasn't that difficult. 

The responses received from Dropbox peeps was the following:

"Hi @Csansom001, most likely you have a recent Mac running on the M1 Silicon chip, which is ARM-based. 

Currently, the Dropbox desktop application for Windows cannot run on an ARM chip, and only the S Mode version of the app can be installed."

That was the end of the help lol. No alternative solutions, just sheit out of luck. See below for solution/workaround that worked for me:

1. Download Dropbox on the Mac side, NOT on parallels.

2. Uninstall Dropbox S on the parallels side, if you have it installed.

3. On the Mac side, make your files available offline within the settings of Dropbox, again on the Mac side NOT parallels.

4. On Parallels side, open file explorer and find your folder that contains your files on Dropbox on the Mac side. Pin this folder on the parallels file explorer. Now you can effectively access Dropbox files on the parallels side without downloading Dropbox on the parallels side. Well, what about syncing files? Your files are synced on the Mac side. So edits flow through the parallels side and then are synced to Dropbox on the Mac side. 

As another alternative - we mainly have parallels for our company so we can use Excel and all its shortcuts. Recently, Accelerator Keys addon for Mac updated their software so there is no longer a lag when using the shortcuts on Mac side Excel. So really, we may end up just scrapping Parallels and going full Mac. Anyway, food for thought and am happy to answer any questions on the above workaround.

[rcravero99]

the best solution is to move to other cloud. It is a pity because Dropbox is working very well and I have an yearly subscription.

Megacloud is working like a charm on Xiaomi S Book 12.4 with Snapdragon ARM gen 2

(and they have clients for win11, linux,etc.etc.)

[christiaans]

It would be great if you could develop a desktop version app of Dropbox that is compatible with the ARM architecture. I am currently running Windows 11 Pro on an Apple Macbook M1 and I need Dropbox Desktop on Windows for compatibility reasons within a bigger team and I've run into a dead stop since I found out that there is so version of Dropbox Desktop compatible with an ARM processor.

I found a few forums where this is discussed, so there are many other people who would also appreciate this development.

[technobrat]

I've been a Dropbox user for a very very long time. Recently I've purchased an X13s Thinkpad with an ARM processor and I've had no major issues using it as well as regarding compatibility of software I need (I'm a Data Scientist and work with IT in general, phpAdmin, DBeaver, VS Code,etc..) obviously the more demanding software I run either on the servers on my local desktop and the X13s was for scripting and daily interactions, e-mails, spreadsheets and the occasional coding here and there (no real compiling).

I use Dropbox to synch between every machine I use to have my files readily available but to my surprise Dropbox can't use the native emulation from Win11 where other softwares that are a lot less know or used are compatible.

Dropbox should invest some time in supporting ARM chips otherwise they will be left behind and I'll have to begin to search for another cloud service... 

A true pitty that this is still unavailable and hopefully by the time my subscription expires they have a solution because using the "S Mode" is less that ideal and completely messes up my workflow.

I have a temporary solution where I have Dropbox access to my local server (home-lab) where I access the dropbox folder in the server as opposed to via the internet directly to the X13s. But this setup is still sub-optimal because I regularly use VPN tunnels which hinder my access to my local server, so I need to disconnect from the VPN when trying to access dropbox files in the server.

Dropbox, you are a multi-million dollar corporation, please invest in at least making Win 11 emulation work, it doesn't need to be a native ARM application.

[PhilippeM]

Meme Motif, même punition..

Utilisateur parallèle desktop,

Solution de contournement évoqué, qui permet "d'utiliser Dropbox" sous Win11 art, via un dossier partagé de la machine virtuelle.

Cependant, impossible de définir Dropbox, comme espace de stockage Office 365, et d'utiliser les fonctionnalités de partage des fichiers EXCEL.

Donc, utilisation de onedrive, en lieu et place de Dropbox, mais à contrecoeur.

Et compte tenu de la puissance financière de Dropbox, et du faible coût d'une décompilation sous ARM, on se demande si cette société ne cherche pas à ce que ses clients migrent vers ONEDRIVE.

Bon courage à toutes et tous

Philippe

[technobrat]

Je suis tout à fait d'accord, mon renouvellement se termine en novembre de cette année, si rien n'est fait, alors j'ai fini. Windows 11 émulation fonctionne plutôt bien, je n'ai pas encore eu de problèmes de compatibilité.

Ils pensent que la version S convient. 

[rcravero99]

this is an international forum, not french one so please switch to english

[Здравко]

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@rcravero99 wrote:

this is an international forum, not french one so please switch to english

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@rcravero99, Именно защото е международен форум, затова всеки език е "добре дошъл", а не само английски! Защо вие не превключите на друг език? 🧐 Ако искате де... 😜 Аз не ви принуждавам!

[Velarier]

Eu também não te forço. Por mim pode ser nas línguas que falo, como Português, Espanhol, Francês, Alemão, Inglês ou então qualquer outra língua que dê para traduzir online.

But on this topic... We've been waiting for over 7 years! In the meantime I've changed the location of my Dropbox folder into Onedrive and sooner or later I'll synchronize the files I need on my android devices and leave Dropbox for good.

On my ARM devices, like Raspberry Pi. In the worst cases I'm using FTP and in the Ubuntu images I'm relying on Google Drive or pCloud.