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MacOS 13.0 Ventura, and Dropbox follows OneDrive in forcing the folder on the system drive
With Monterey, OneDrive implemented the new apis from Apple for online syncing that demanded its main location be a specific folder on the system drive. 8 months later, the MacOS community section of...
Walter
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHey 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?
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
- Megan
Hey Martin R.19, I hope you're doing well!
You had some very interesting, and on point questions there. As long as your app is up to date, the migration will be as seamless as possible. You don't need to follow any particular process on your end, or move the folder beforehand since our app will take care of everything.
What we want is to provide the best possible experience for all our customers going through this change, and that's what we'll try to do in your case as well.
In regards to keeping your all folders as online-only, that would do no harm, since it'll help the app re-index content possibly faster. We want to hope that we got it all covered on our end, and that's why we're working so hard on this every day.
If you have any questions, let me know.
