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After upgrading to macOS Ventura, I was prompted to upgrade to "Dropbox for macOS 12". I proceeded with that, it moved my Dropbox folder to ~/Library/CloudStorage and confirmed all was successful. Now when using Spotlight to search (I often type something like 'drawings folder' to open a folder called Drawings) the results in Spotlight show the Dropbox app icon beside the name of the item I want (rather than a Finder icon for folder or file). Hitting Enter or clicking on the result switches to Finder and does nothing, or sometimes will open the Applications folder and show the Dropbox app. It's not linking me to the actual file in ~/Library/CloudStorage.
I have done the following and the problem is not solved:
Nothing works. Any suggestions??
@JoePL wrote:On step 2, could you clarify how to make ~/Dropbox a symbolic link?
There are several ways to confirm this:
(1) to see the Finder showing the icon of symlink (or what is called “alias” in old way) like this:
(2) to see the "Get Info" (“symbolic link” in UNIX and Linux can be regarded as “Alias” in the macOS world):
(3) or to see in the terminal like this (the leftmost “l” denotes symbolic link):
For those who were waiting for it macOS Ventura 13.3 has been released.
Fingers crossed all is good after this update.
Will report back when I get time to do the update.
It's fixed! Euge!
Hi Everybody,
We expect this issue to be resolved with macOS 13.3. Thanks for reporting back that updating to 13.3 has provided resolution @MikeCTZA and @reformedtexan
We don't expect this problem to persist, but if anybody continues to experience it, please don't hesitate to let us know!
Regards,
Ben
Fixed! I just updated to macOS 13.3 Ventura and can search and open all files from Spotlight Search. Woohoo! FINALLY!!!
Hi Ben, experimenting with Dropbox team together I was upgrading 4 times and all of them was unsuccessful. Thats why I would like to ask you about an extra confirmation, that a new Dropbox version on a new Ventura 13.3 is able to open files or folders "in place" by pressing Cmd+Enter directly from the Spotlight search. I mean not to open a file it self, but to show a location where it was saved. It's is my daily workflow and the old version still works fine. Please let me (us) know
Hi @minpi I have just updated to Os 13.3 and everything seems to work fine like it used to. Pressing Cmd+enter opens the finder locations of the file highlighted in spotlight.
Hope this helps.
Thank you very much. I will try😊
@Rijak @ThePlanner, can you confirm Spotlight indeed works if you fully upgrade and enable the Dropbox files to be stored in the ~/CloudStorage/ folder?
@JoePLyes, I am running the latest dropbox build (v170.4.5895) and files are stored in the CloudStorage folder. Up to this morning Dropbox did not work like it used to, but after the os update it does.
Hope this helps.
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