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My first response was rage but on more careful reading, this doesn’t change much for me. I can probably symlink ~/Dropbox to ~/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox and
by codazoda 4y ago
My first response was rage but on more careful reading, this doesn’t change much for me. I can probably symlink ~/Dropbox to ~/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox and call it a day. Here’s why it doesn’t affect me much, which I mostly wrote to calm my own nerves…
- I have a bunch of scripts, aliases, crons, and other console things that rely on ~/Dropbox. A symlink should fix that and it looks like Dropbox will create one automatically when it moves the folder.
- I can create a new favorite to the new folder in Finder. I use a single subdirectory (my name) so, if I can only do this with a subdirectory, not the Dropbox root, that’s fine. I presume I can do it with root too though.
- I don’t store Dropbox files on an external drive. Seems like I could never get this to work right. I just use my internal. I guess I got lucky here.
- I don’t use many of Apples Proprietary tools that use flattened package files. I onky use Photo’s temporarily, and I don’t really use Pages, Numbers, or Keys. But, if I did, they only really work on Mac, so this seems like a sane change to me. I mostly use similar cross platform apps like Libre Office if I want it to be portable.
- I don’t search in Finder, I just use spotlight, which continues to work the same way.
- I might have 300k files, I’m not sure. I try to organize photos into folder annually to cut down the number. Lots of things have trouble with this many files. I already try to organize around similar limitations.
- I’m already on MacOS 13. MacOS 12 seems to have a handful of file issues that probably wouldn’t affect me anyways, but definitely won’t under 13.
- I don’t use LAN syncing.
- I keep almost all of my files in offline mode (on the local machine, taking up space, duplicates, etc).
- eslaught 4y ago> Files added to your Dropbox account from another device or that are shared by another user will default to online-only. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this completely breaks the sync model if you use more than one computer. It used to be you could add a file on machine A, and without any user interaction, it would sync to machine B. Now that's broken unless I go and manually mark every top-level folder as offline. And don't ever add anything to the root of your Dropbox folder....
- codazoda 4y agoCould be true. In an act of luck, I created a folder for myself and that’s all I sync. So, if I can set this at the folder level, I just set that one folder to offline and I’m good. It’s just happen-stance that I set mine up this way years ago though.