MacOS 13.0 Ventura, and Dropbox follows OneDrive in forcing the folder on the system drive

treeandrew
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago
Hi All,

Just reporting whether the steps I took did address my original concern - the complete absence of the green "synchronised" indicators on my Dropbox folders under Ventura, and seeing whether relocating the Dropbox folder into the recommended Home Profile location would resolve that. Well the news is both good and bad ...
Firstly, having moved the location of my Dropbox folder into the "recommended" location - inside my external SSD based Home Profile folder and re-syncing, the performance is great - despite the tedious requirement to resync completely.
At first I thought that it hadn't fixed the sync indicators situation at all, but today, I started noticing that they were "re-appearing" - at the "leaf" nodes of the very substantial set of files I have - i.e. at the documents within the lowest level of the folder tree.
Then as I progressed up those trees, with all files downloaded and local, the directories the indicators "percolated" up the tree.
That is until you get to the very top-level of the folders directly under my Dropbox Folder ... they never seem to show a green indicator, even though every folder under them, is showing a green indicator.
So I'm not sure whether that is something that will resolve itself over time, as the sync indicators appearing sometime post the initial re-syncing did ... I'll wait and see. At least seeing the sync indicators at the lower levels is part way to what I was hoping to achieve.
- Walter
  Dropbox Staff
  3 years ago
  Hey treeandrew, could you send us a screenshot of the app's exact status as shown in your menu bar at the moment?
  
  Is it 'up to date' or still syncing perhaps?
  - Martin R.19
    Collaborator | Level 10
    3 years ago
    Hello to the Community, hello Dropbox Staff,
    
    I'm running Dropbox 160.4.4703 under MacOS 13.0.1. (Ventura) with OpenCore Legacy Patcher on a late 2013 iMac (27"). I also use Boxcryptor for the Dropboxfolder. That works all like charme while I'm now waiting for the expected changes by Dropbox, moving the Dropbox folder to ~/Library/CloudStorage. So far Dropbox did not force an update and if it's up to me that never needs to happen anyway... 😉
    
    By the way, just to avoid any misunderstanding: does "~/Library/CloudStorage" mean the library folder in the user directory or at "Macintosh HD/Library"?
    
    Is there anything I can do to prepare in advance such as moving my Dropbox folder to the new location ~/Library/CloudStorage already manually?
    
    What are your recommendations to make the change as smooth and less annoying as possible.
    
    I use the Thunderbird mail client and have my complete mail directory in the Dropbox folder. That will need to get adjusted/re-linked of course.
    
    I also use Windows 10 under Parallels 18 on same machine and use the Dropbox folder directory as network folder there. So that needs to get modified later as well.
    
    In my Dropboxfolder I have a folder with movies (approx. 500 GB) but they are all marked "online only". Hopefully this will help to speed up the move.
    
    Is it recommended to put all files on "online only" before starting the move? Will this make things going faster and avoid problems better? I mean, if all files are "online only" the local process of the move by Dropbox should go much faster as there won't be endless consequent synchronization involved. I prefer to do the synchronization later manually myself for only those files that I need offline.
    
    Is it probably a good idea to delete my "older" Dropbox version, move the Dropbox folder directory to the new location ~/Library/CloudStorage (how to name the folder there?) and then install the latest version of Dropbox again, that will then use the new location?
    
    Would be great if you guys at Dropbox can give me some recommendations.
    
    Thanks & Regards,
    
    Martin