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Opting out of cloud storage?
I've been a Dropbox user for about 10 years. Today, I was greeted with a demand from my Dropbox client to move all of my Dropbox synced folders from ~/Dropbox to ~/Library/CloudStorage. I've done...
Hey sfsdfd, thanks for taking the time to provide additional info on your query.
Allow me to clarify that even if you update your Dropbox application to Dropbox for macOS on File Provider, you'll still have the option to have your files available offline.
Even if you don't make the choice to initially sync them as available offline, you can still manually do so afterwards, with a simple right-click choice.
The usability of the app remains the same, with the added option to switch your files to online-only, to save up hard drive space.
However, we do appreciate your feedback on this and I'll make sure to pass it along to our team.
Let us know if you have any other questions.
Rich
Super User II
Super User II
sfsdfd wrote:
However, I can't seem to find any indication of how well that marking process works.
- https://help.dropbox.com/installs/macos-faqs
- https://help.dropbox.com/installs/macos-support-for-expected-changes
It is a shame that Dropbox has taken this one-size-fits-all approach and has broken core functionality in furtherance of a feature that I have no intention of ever using.
It's actually Apple that has pushed this, with their File Provider API.
Same problem with Windows so do NOT let Dropbox tell you it is an Apple problem !!! I have been with Dropbox for 10+ years also and now my files & folders have been duplicated (each file 2x) on the web and an additional 4x on my computer and technical support has just been emailing me things to do that they don't understand themselves and i already know. You learn alot when you use a program for 10+ years, huh ????? I doubt the higher level technician even has the knowledge i do because their fix will just make the problem worse or cost me a ton of time fixing as my files change on a daily/weekly/monthly/yearly basis. I also want all my data available on my hard drive for my immediant access and protection, but i dont want each file in 6 different places and when we change a file, which file in what place did we actually change today, was it the same actual file as yesterday ? Last week ? I also am in a licensed profession and i can NOT just have my files online, they MUST RESIDE ON MY HARD DRIVE, just in case of an attack i need to be able to "pull the plug". I am with you.....they either fix this or its a deal breaker for me as well. I'm on your side !
