Some trivia for the record - Snow Leopard Server is the only pre-intel MacOS that is licensed to operate on virtual machines.
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Dropbox Planning to Add Native Apple Silicon Support to Mac App in First Half of 2022 [Updated]
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HobeSoundDarryl
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I'm thinking there is something here for me but not sure what it is. Maybe you are saying I could dump the old intel Mac running Snow Leopard and have Snow Leopard in a newer Mac running virtualized Snow Leopard? If so, thanks for the idea but that Mac is basically retired- and fully paid for- and does that job just fine.
But if it dies, maybe I could "hang on" to Rosetta 1 a little longer that way? I'll remember that if that Mac finally conks out. Thanks for the reminder.
And it doesn't always work as well as we would hope.
The increase in network traffic can be dramatic in some circumstances, and that matter especially much when running over a complex site with existing squeeze points in their network.
FWIW saying I use Sync.Com. May not have block-level syncing, but the security/privacy is great (albeit at the cost of 'speed'), easy to share w/others, and the client is rock-solid in my experience w/o device restrictions. No corporate goofyness, either. Feels just like another folder on my local disk!
(No, this isn't a shill, just offering my 2 cents)
(No, this isn't a shill, just offering my 2 cents)
H1 2022... So 1,5 years in the making.
Have they dedicated one part time programmer to this task?
Have they dedicated one part time programmer to this task?
Guys don't even worry. There is a M1 compatible build coming soon. Anyone here who works at Dropbox knows about it, we got emails about it recently.
The forum post is incorrect.
The forum post is incorrect.
iCloud is a Cloud storage solution if you know how to use it. The Documents & Desktop sync can be turned off and are optional. Anything you want to use as actual Cloud storage, just create folders in the iCloud Drive folder location on macOS, iOS or iPadOS. It will sync to the files app on iOS & iPAdOS but not download to the device unless you want it to by passing download. The Mac will download what it think you use the most but this also can be overwritten by right clicking and pressing Remove Download. And it will stay in the cloud and not locally. A lot of people bash iCloud as not a true storage solution but it really is, you just have to know how to use. It's sort of a sync and cloud storage all in one.
That's why they kind of broke it up to iCloud Drive and then also the Documents & Desktop folder backup. But the cloud storage part is the iCloud Drive folder where you have all Pages, Numbers, etc... folders, you can create more folders and keep everything stored there.
Moved to OneDrive because of this (mostly lack of M1, signalling complacency, for the hefty price,) and because it’s £2 a month for 100GB of OneDrive storage and not £10 for ~2000GBs of Dropbox storage that I’m never going to use, which I believe to be the majority of users (unless you're freelance etc).
I tried the objectively superior, Maestral client for Dropbox (M1) for OSX to tempt me back.
But again, the more reasonable price of £2 for OneDrive (100GB,) was too tempting (M1 support dropping very soon, whenever the new Office is out for OSX,) and to stick with a company like $DBX whose focus is less on the individual, currently, and more on building an ‘alternative stack’ to M$ Office, was a decision I didn’t take likely, since I’ve been with them for nearly a decade or so.
No dice at that price.
Most financial outlets/grifters/websites are signalling $DBX long because they purchased a document signing company - like that is somehow a novel thing in the corporate world.
$DBX Investors will be pissed eventually and Dropbox (paid) will be bundled with Slack (paid) within the next few years.
I tried the objectively superior, Maestral client for Dropbox (M1) for OSX to tempt me back.
But again, the more reasonable price of £2 for OneDrive (100GB,) was too tempting (M1 support dropping very soon, whenever the new Office is out for OSX,) and to stick with a company like $DBX whose focus is less on the individual, currently, and more on building an ‘alternative stack’ to M$ Office, was a decision I didn’t take likely, since I’ve been with them for nearly a decade or so.
No dice at that price.
Most financial outlets/grifters/websites are signalling $DBX long because they purchased a document signing company - like that is somehow a novel thing in the corporate world.
$DBX Investors will be pissed eventually and Dropbox (paid) will be bundled with Slack (paid) within the next few years.
It’s much cheaper, so OneDrive can be somewhat, proportionately, forgiven.
1D M1 support coming with Office 2022 (which should be out soon.)
They have to implement a Finder Sync extension, and therefore they have to do some work at least.
I stopped using Dropbox when I became an Office 356 subscriber (now Microsoft 365)
I needed Office... and the OneDrive storage is a bonus.
Oh and I can share my Microsoft plan with other people... and they each get Office apps and OneDrive storage.
I definitely wouldn't pay Dropbox for just storage.
I needed Office... and the OneDrive storage is a bonus.
Oh and I can share my Microsoft plan with other people... and they each get Office apps and OneDrive storage.
I definitely wouldn't pay Dropbox for just storage.
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
Like any such programs, this will probably mostly matter to just me. But I'll take the bait if it is bait.
There's actually TWO. One is two of those massive, royalty-free image libraries that used to be sold on big packs of DVDs. My work needs lots of images and that's still a great, free source. These could be installed on Snow Leopard so you could put the DVDs away rather than have to insert the right disc of many discs. The app that does the searching and indexing needs Rosetta 1. No way around that. In fact, the image set is towards useless without the ability to quickly find desired images using that search app.
The other is PhoneValet Message Center (a business voice mail system). It continues to serve my business very well but quit upgrades after Snow Leopard. There's no "free" equivalent of that in macOS since (someone correct me if I'm wrong)... though several options in the cloud (for ongoing fees of course) and/or single-person (but not group VM) options. This does quality company, multi-user voice mail etc. for $0/yr.
Beyond that there are a few classic games that didn't make the leap but are as fun to play now as they were then. Graphics are relatively poor scaled up to today's TV resolutions but many games from back then were about gameplay and not spending hours/days and money to build something to then use in the game. No in-app ads. No pay-to-continue "features." Just fun.
Again, hardly anyone else would probably value any of that at all. But it matters enough to me to maintain a Snow Leopard mac in my mix of Macs.
I recall a more mainstream important app- was it Quicken?- that did not make the leap for a LONG time. While it finally came back- long after Rosetta 1 was terminated- apparently it is still not on-par with the Windows version. This seemed to affect many on this and similar sites.
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I only use it for files occasionally and turn off automatic startup the other day when I noticed it was still running on Intel platform. Glad they're going to support it going forward but in the meantime I'll be looking for alternatives.
I meant that I occasionally run Snow Leopard Server via Parallels which, technically, keeps me street legal without having to keep an old box. Even in emulation, the software in question runs faster than my old box. Now I don't know yet whether I'll be able. to do the same on an Apple Silicon box - after all, it would be running on Rosetta 1 via Snow Leopard Server via Parallels via Monterey (probably with Rosetta 2 in the mix, somewhere). That's a lot of levels.