I'm very confused about what is happening with Dropbox. >It is, however it is now known as online-only. will it move stuff to being online only if it won't fit? >That's right, it will try to move the content on your internal drive until it has no space and gives you an error. >So what will happen - if we have a Dropbox folder on an 8TB drive and a tiny internal drive - will it try to clone stuff across and eat up the space? What's the mechanism? >The updates happening automatically every time the Dropbox app is restarting, for example if your device never restarts it should maintain the older version but we can't guarantee full functionality on older versions of the application.

What will trigger its enforcement? Can we stay on an earlier OS or Dropbox version? >This change doesn't seem to have hit us yet - we're running a variety of machines inc Ventura Unfortunately, there is no workaround on this as changing the location of your Dropbox folder is no longer supported by macOS. > I totally understand and I apologize for the inconvenience.

We have a large distributed team using DB for video work, no way it'll fit within internal drives. >This is a showstopper for us, and will mean we have to move to another service. That is correct Jon, as part of the Dropbox for macOS update, the Dropbox folder must be located in ~/Library/CloudStorage. My name is Joseph, and I will be more than happy to look into your request, right away.

> Hello Jon, and thank you for contacting Dropbox Support. >Hi there, I read today that you are scrapping the ability to store the Dropbox folder on external disks, on OSX. Gutted - been with Dropbox for years and our entire video team flow is based around it Just confirmed this with DB support (see below). if you're a Mac user storing your Dropbox on an external drive, you'll shortly lose that ability.

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