It's even worse than this, as Apple announced the dropping of kernel extensions back at WWDC 2019.
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Dropbox Plans to Release Mac App Beta With Full Support for macOS Monterey in Fourth Quarter
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Because after the client updated itself to the latest version (61.0.3.0), the Drive client itself popped up a notice to tell me precisely so?
Also my drives have indeed been migrated to ~/Library/CloudStorage which took a little while of near maximum CPU usage. Exact same thing on both my machines, one being a Mac mini M1 and the other an old MacBook Pro Intel 2016, both with the latest publicly released macOS 12.5. May or may not require your Google Workspace account to be enrolled in one of Google's pre-release programs though, I have no idea about that.
And yes, I know all about how Google Drive [File Stream] used to work. Initially a Fuse based kernel extension, then when that was no longer possible with the introduction of M1 they switched to an SMB backend.
I haven’t used DropBox in the last few years. I forgot it was still there. I don’t need it anymore, so I’ll delete it as soon as I get around to it.
Can someone explain how icloud drive can replace dropbox? You can't even share files to someone without them having an icloud account (most of the world don't).
Dropbox, you just right click, share link
More critical IMHO is that iCloud Drive as far as I can tell has no support for file history? That might've flown during the iTools or .mac days back in ancient times, but completely unacceptable for a modern cloud file service.
Thanks for that information. 61.0.3.0 is what I'm running, a fresh download yesterday.
From reading that, I understand that I'm not running the File Provider API yet. I guess it's just not rolled out to me yet. So, the current version of the software supports the older approach and the new API.
Makes sense.
Thanks all for that information.
So, for me Dropbox and Google Drive have not rolled out the File Provider API. Neither shows icons on the files and neither shows up in the Finder's Locations. I don't really care about Google Drive since I don't use Google products (I only installed it as a learning exercise). But, I'm dreading the Dropbox rollout considering how much content I have in it.
I use Dropbox to sync some small database files between my devices on their free plan. Their macOS client was always garbage. Switched over to Maestral, an open source client. It works quite well for my needs and its very light.
Dropbox betas have been working properly with the fileproviderd extension and CloudStorage location for me and others for many months. I saw the Dropbox statement in the article in one of the many threads in the Dropbox Community on the subject and it is typical of the left hand/right hand problem that pervades the Dropbox Community Site.
It is a source of much confusion on the Dropbox forums why the change to fileproviderd/CloudStorage is happening for some people and not others, but the likely explanation is that it is working for Personal accounts on the beta, but not for Business and Teams accounts. Most complaints seem to be business users. Dropbox communication has been abysmal.
Even after moving to beta channel the change does not happen for everyone on Personal accounts. I had to force it by uninstalling Dropbox completely and setting up from scratch.
It is a source of much confusion on the Dropbox forums why the change to fileproviderd/CloudStorage is happening for some people and not others, but the likely explanation is that it is working for Personal accounts on the beta, but not for Business and Teams accounts. Most complaints seem to be business users. Dropbox communication has been abysmal.
Even after moving to beta channel the change does not happen for everyone on Personal accounts. I had to force it by uninstalling Dropbox completely and setting up from scratch.
Monterey won't even be the latest MacOS in the 4th quarter. These larger companies have money and they should not have this type of delay.
While I LMAO at Dropbox for announcing support for a year-old OS (Monterey) to be released a month or more after a new OS (Ventura) is released, I gotta say that Dropbox appears to work just fine for me under Monterey... other than the app is CPU hog.
That being said, I use iCloud Drive for most of my online storage needs, and Mega for file transfers, so this news is too little, too late.
That being said, I use iCloud Drive for most of my online storage needs, and Mega for file transfers, so this news is too little, too late.
Classic example of running lean on development and getting bit for it. Serves DB right.
Then again Box’s rollout of Apple Silicon support was a clown show.
I've only seen synchronizing get stuck when there's been a conflict between versions on the server and my local computer. I solved it by moving aside the local file; the remote file then appeared in its place. The two files seemed to be identical so I think the conflict must have been an iCloud bug.
I have seen the file indicators saying things like transfers were in progress. But I checked on another machine as well as on the iCloud website; there were no transfers in progress, and everything was up to date. So, I really don't trust the indicators.