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g v.
Collaborator | Level 10
3 months ago
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How to remain ineligible for "new Dropbox for macos on File Provider"

Luckily, I managed to still be ineligible for macos on File Provider, and I would like to keep it that way. How do I make sure I do not become eligible and keep the ~/Dropbox location, in my home fol...
  • Mark's avatar
    3 months ago
    g v. wrote:

    I have set my default to Available Offline and choose Selective Sync for folders that should remain on Dropbox. Is that a successful configuration towards my goal?

    I doubt it, unfortunately. Selective Sync doesnt impact upon the new finder option as that still works as a feature. They still dont appear etc. 

    I suspect its just a case of when not if the change will occur if I'm honest. Or, as has happened before, Dropbox will stop working on your device completely - as it has done, deprectating older OS's, etc. I cant imagine this would happen in short term though.  

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