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ShanaC
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Take Dropbox out of Mac Library

The Dropbox upgrade moved the dropbox files to my  ~/Library/CloudStorage/ --- but I can't save any files to that folder.    All the online instructions say "do the advanced reinstallation per th...
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genox
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

I have the same issue. I use multiple image editing suites, type tools, icon tools which build libraries around absolute paths. Some can't outright open the Dropbox Folder, others I need to fix the path each time I open a library. This is infuriating. It is mind boggling to me how something like that is pushed into the wild without considering that. Even worse, the only offered solution is to run shell commands.. 

 

I removed the dropbox client and switched to Maestral (https://maestral.app). One more benefit seems to be a much lower footprint of Maestral compared to the Dropbox App (3-4 times smaller and probably less memory hungry, too).

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