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Sudden Dropbox macOS Changes

by dougdonohoe on 2/15/23, 2:01 AM with 3 comments

• by astockwell on 2/15/23, 3:08 PM

  I got this message this morning as well.

  Dropbox, like gmail, has been a service I've used for (feels like) 10+ years, and it's served me well enough to both PAY FOR IT, and ignore the warts (nagging me to use it for pics, passwords, constantly turning on 'online-only' mode when I explicitly disable it, etc).

  Frankly, until today, it has just WORKED. To the point where half-a-dozen Mac apps sync configs to it.

  Forcing a unilateral interruption to all their customer's workflows like this, while work-around-able, feels like the right time to re-evaluate keeping it at all.

• by mdmglr on 2/15/23, 5:30 AM

  Anyone know any technical details on why ~/Library/CloudStorage was chosen? Is this to better integrate with what the OS expects for cloud storage providers?

• by shrimp_emoji on 2/15/23, 5:53 AM

  I wonder if this also affects Linux.