You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
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Dropbox StaffBeta Build 141.3.3144
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Hello - how would I know if I'm running the Apple M1 version of Dropbox? This is the current version I have and already opted in to
early releases and waited a day. I believe I'm running the M1 Dropbox app now since Dropbox restarted and from a visual standpoint I see that the green checkmarks for synced files are now darker green as opposed to lighter green before.You can see which version you're running in the activity monitor. Just add the "kind" column:
Another way is to show the info window (right click the application -> Get Info) for the application:
Activity Monitor shows each process as Apple or Intel in the "Kind" column.
The "Kind" column is not checked by default.
Turn it on in menubar > View > Columns.
Thank you both! Very helpful and now I can see which other apps are running natively or not.
One thing I noticed is that while the Dropbox background app runs natively now, the app via the icon is not. Meaning that when I click on "Get Info" for the app in Finder it reads that it's Intel:
But the background task of Dropbox that operates behind the scenes reads the kind as "Apple"
To investigate further I learned about looking through "System Information" to check the kind of all apps on my Mac. Dropbox shows up twice - once as Apple Silicon and the other as Intel:
How can I clean this up?
After moving to this beta build on my Intel Mac (waiting to update on my Apple silicon M1), the ~/Dropbox folder is now gone. Good to see that Dropbox appears to be using more of Apple's file provider work, and Dropbox does show up in the Finder sidebar. It appears the actual files are now in ~/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox.
However, I really do need to have a ~/Dropbox folder. I use Dropbox very often with scripts that expect this folder. I can create an alias or similar, but would much prefer Dropbox (that basically got its name for creating this folder) to manage this for me.
Is this a known issue? Really would be nice to get something like release notes for something like this.
Unrelated, but also noticed the desktop app appears to be completely missing in this update.
Got a message via the Dropbox app that this beta was available for my Mac and I should upgrade to it in order to "continue working" on my version of MacOS (12.1).
So, upgraded and then ... disaster!
Syncing never ends, with no indication of its progress, just "Syncing ..."
I've left it syncing for over 24 hours now and no end in sight.
While it's syncing, folders and files under Dropbox control cannot be opened, I get "resolving..." messages when trying to open folders and nothing happens if I get into a folder and try to open a file.
Meanwhile, I'm noticing that the sync is duplicating EVERYTHING I have on Dropbox, creating two copies of everything.
I cannot work now on any Dropbox files and need to completely wipe out my machine and restore it from a pre-beta backup.
My fault for agreeing to try this beta - my post is to serve as a warning to others that things could go badly wrong.
Exactly the same problem here. It never seems to stop syncing. After syncing 250K+ files it sticks on syncing the last 126 files for hours and hours. Same goes form me, never had to install this beta.
I'm so fed up with Dropbox after fiddling for hours. Cannot reinstall stable version on the Mac because after running the stable version for a few seconds it's shuts down and reinstalls and runs the beta-version again. How dow I get back?
[edit: I should have first unchecked ‘early releases’ in my profile that solved the forced beta use. But going back to stable version is not without problems]
