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Apple Silicon (M1) Desktop Sync Compatibility
Please can you upgrade the Dropbox app so that it works natively on Apple Silicon Macs (M1) without Rosetta.
Rosetta is not an option as it annihilates the battery.
This may be a duplicat...
Hi all,
Native Apple silicon support is now fully available. All users with Apple silicon devices will receive the native version of Dropbox automatically. If you would like to update your device manually, you can do so by clicking on the latest Stable Build and downloading the Offline Installer (Apple Silicon) file. For more information, visit the Dropbox Help Center.If you need assistance with anything else, please feel free to create a new thread and our community team will be happy to assist.
My company is migrating away from Dropbox as well because of a lack of native Apple Silicon Support. Beware of OneDrive...It is limited by archaic Windows folder/file naming conventions (thank you SharePoint). We have 1000's of files and folders that would need to be renamed because either the entire folder/file then is too long for OneDrive or they contain characters not supported in OneDrive file/folder names.
I have been running the Apple Silicon Box beta and it is good. The only downside of Box for us is that they do not support the same SmartSync features as DropBox (selective sync...yes, smart sync no). This will suck in the short term on our machines that do not have a lot of available drive space, but they will be replaced over the next year with M1X macs.
Good luck with you migration! Dropbox is losing a nice corporate contract from my company because they refuse to modernize the mac app for Apple Silicon (SHM).
