You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
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Dropbox Apple Silicon (M1) install
Hi,
I recently purchased a MacBook Pro 13" with the M1 processor and I cannot seem to get a native install of Dropbox for this chipset. From searching the community, it seems like M1 support sh...
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.
What a shame of dropbox. I will also cancel my subscription, this is not acceptable nowadays!
Does anyone have a recommendation for dropbox alternatives, since we are all looking for one?
I would also like a native M1 app. As a workaround (and it is barely a workaround), I am using Transmit 5 (a native M1 Total Commander-like interface) that has manual sync and Dropbox support.
- I would like to express my interest in this getting done as well. And they better do it soon… or at least announce that it’s coming. Otherwise I will be hitting copy and paste right into iCloud waiting a few hours and immediately unsubscribing.
Well the dropbox app sucks big time now on my M1 and uninstalled it. It consumed +4GB of RAM and it failed to properly sync 2 files to my Mac which is under 10GB that I had to wait for more than 24 hours to complete through a 50 Mbps connection. The ETA kept changing from a few minutes up to "n" number of days LOL.
Can't wait to migrate out of Dropbox very soon and never look back.
Apple barricaded kernel extensions on M1 chips. For an app that uses kernel extensions to work natively with M1, you have to boot into recovery mode and change a security setting. Dropbox obviously doesn't want to play ball because it's not a long-term solution. A new API to access files and folders remotely was recently introduced and dropbox might be using that instead: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/fileprovider
