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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wwmiller3
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago

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...
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  • Emmet's avatar
    Emmet
    3 years ago

    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.

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ilrian
Helpful | Level 6

The dropbox app on my MBA M1 took 1.5 GB from my RAM while it sits idle for more than an hour. Will follow up with a screenshot.

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ilrian
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago

I uninstalled mine that I got using the default online installer and tried the recommended offline installation. The dropbox app alone still took about the same amount of RAM even if it's not syncing. 

 

RAM consumed while idle

    • tillkrueger's avatar
      tillkrueger
      Collaborator | Level 10
      4 years ago
      Installed it first thing this morning. And if Adobe can have a number of their most complex apps ready for M1, then…

      In all fairness, though, Adobe bloated their Creative Cloud app with so much extra functionality, in a similar fashion as Dropbox did with their Sync client app, that Adobe has also yet to produce a beta for M1 that allows their M1 apps to be installed on a system without Rosetta 2. Kinda ironic, me thinks, when the Sync client, or in Adobe’s case the install client, become more complex than the application(s) itself.

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