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Emanuele B.'s avatar
Emanuele B.
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago

MacOS 13.0 Ventura, and Dropbox follows OneDrive in forcing the folder on the system drive

With Monterey, OneDrive implemented the new apis from Apple for online syncing that demanded its main location be a specific folder on the system drive. 8 months later, the MacOS community section of...
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BJRo's avatar
BJRo
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

Dropbox was synching fine, and then I opted to relink it after moving it. Now Dropbox wants to store 100+GB in my Library folder? What the f? Anyone have a fix to this?

dandid's avatar
dandid
Helpful | Level 7
3 years ago

the first 'fix' is apples idea of no need to have them available locally, they 'just synch' as needed but all live in the cloud.

the second fix involves migrating your whole home directory (including the 'new upgraded dropbox' folder)  to an external drive that is bigger and cheaper than the drives apple sells in its machines.

  • TRO_Berlin's avatar
    TRO_Berlin
    Helpful | Level 6
    3 years ago

    Pushing this topic again.

     

    Moving your home directory cannot be the solution that will be accepted to be honest... A lot of large external storage devices are still HDDs, you would slow down your mac by moving the home directory to HDDs / a HDD RAID.

     

    Any Update from the Dropbox Team on this? OneDrive has an official how-to / solution on their website for a few months now... 

    • Andrew Parker's avatar
      Andrew Parker
      Helpful | Level 7
      3 years ago

      Our "solution" has been to not do any updates on our Macs, so we're sat on Monterey. It's obviously going to become a problem when a new Mac gets added into the mix, but for the moment it's working. 

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