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Dropbox to Roll Out Update With Full Support for macOS 12.5 by End of May
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Yep. I tried it once a couple years ago. It immediately pegged my CPU and didn't stop until I uninstalled it.
Is it me or are all 3rd party cloud storage apps getting worse and worse every year? Guess it's apple's way to keep iCloud Drive competitive by throwing all these needless api changes at them forcing them to rewrite their apps every other year.
Dropbox wants $125 a year for 2TB of storage and *nothing* else. iCloud does $120 a year for 2TB storage and everything else that goes along with it.
If you're an all-Apple person, there's no reason to go with Dropbox over iCloud.
If you're an all-Apple person, there's no reason to go with Dropbox over iCloud.
Apple does some bad stuff, but when it comes to Dropbox, Dropbox rewrote their app to make it a monstrous horrible web-app with 2590 features nobody wants all on their own, no encouragement needed from anyone.
It varies by account not application version. My wife and I are on the same Dropbox version and Ventura. Her account is upgraded. My work account is not.
The Dropbox folder will move to the user library folder under 'CloudStorage'.
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Dropbox, by default, keeps 30 days of file versions. iCloud doesn't keep any versions except the latest.
I wonder when Box.com will launch an Apple Silicon native version of their client. They had a beta going a couple of years ago but it was using the soon-deprecated kexts, so they shelves it and it seems like we’ll have to live with Rosetta forever. Not a good look. As a corporate user I have no choice but to use it…
Apple gave cloud storage companies notice in 2019 and extended the deadline by 6 months since DropBox and OneDrive still were not ready. I’m pretty sure they just didn’t start working on it until the last second. The APIs are based on what has been available on iOS forever, so they had a starting point already.
On an individual/family level, sure, iCloud is prob fine. But sharing files across multiple platforms (desktops & phones, PCs, & macs) with multiple clients (with multiple skill levels) in multiple time zones -- dropbox is a king. All day every day with 10+ clients I access dropbox hundreds of times a day. nary a hiccup.
Integration with 3rd party websites, like jotform, issuu, slack, ad stream, pickit and magazine manager (to name a few), is invaluable. Nothing (except maybe one drive, but clunky) comes close.
Integration with 3rd party websites, like jotform, issuu, slack, ad stream, pickit and magazine manager (to name a few), is invaluable. Nothing (except maybe one drive, but clunky) comes close.
Good to hear about this. Hopefully everyone gets the update by April.
OneDrive is gradually improving after the controversial update for macOS 12.3. For example, files can now be dragged into the trash can instead of being asked for deletion or not.
Yeah it was better. But after turning off all the clutter I still find it useful. I love having 22GB fee storage, compared to my 5GB Apple crap. Dropbox is nice for document backup and some simple file share with relatives.
As a developer who's familiar with FileProvider extensions, I can imagine why it took Dropbox so long to support it. It's a huge black box that you don't have much control over building an integration with the Files app on iOS for example, there used to be an app for developers so you could test your integration, but that's deleted from the Developer downloads at Apple. The documentation is often spread across pages that don't like to each other, or there's only documentation in a WWDC video from 2017 or something.
Of course, I'm guessing that's what happened at Dropbox, there's no telling. But if that's the case why they had to delay so often, I'm not surprised at all.
Of course, I'm guessing that's what happened at Dropbox, there's no telling. But if that's the case why they had to delay so often, I'm not surprised at all.
If you have a Mac, sync iCloud documents (most photos are ... well photos) and use Time Machine (make sure to not exclude iCloud). Problem solved.
Right now I am downloading/moving my files on OneDrive to an external disk and thinking about an alternative. Here's why: OneDrive on the browser says I'm using 350GB of 1.03 TB. But...
du -sm Library/Group\ Containers/*|grep OneDrive
1 Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.OfficeOneDriveSyncIntegration
216338 Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.OneDriveStandaloneSuite
331080 Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.OneDriveSyncClientSuite
All my files were supposed to be on the local disk but for some reason OneDrive filled my 2TB SSD and decided, all by itself, to eject my files and keep only the local cloud links. Also, there are two copies of the files, one with 216G and the other with 331GB. And Onedrive is downloading everything again? Very unreliable and a massive waste of time since I have to download all the files again. Not to mention that it beachballs very often.
I can probably erase some and get the 200GB tier of iCloud+...