![]() Perhaps there are technical requirements that are important in Apple’s grand scheme of things, but I believe this is a downgrade in the choice Apple customers have, and perhaps this should be examined by some competition regulator although I would suppose Dropbox would have their legal teams already filling the paperwork if there was a case. And now they are forcing other devs to do the same. Don’t want to pay through the nose? Well, Apple provides the feature of “automatically optimizing your hard disk space” -which we all know it’s not exactly predictable. On a purely speculative basis, I agree with I think that Apple never bothered to allow external iCloud storage in order to sell more expensive internal storage. This is the restriction I was mentioning, it seems that the newer system-level frameworks provided by Apple do not support external storage. If they are now requiring the same of Dropbox that seems to reinforce my theory. I also backup the Dropbox Folder (and new Gdrive folder) with Carbon Copy Capture and appears to work fine. Nothing in the above FAQ that I see mentions TimeMachine backups/restores won’t work anymore. I’ve done some testing with restore with TimeMachine and don’t notice any problems–does not mean of course there are not any problems. ![]() Check this for yourself by looking at the Dropbox folder in a Terminal. I’ve set all the folders to be “offline”, they all appear as accessible files in ~/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox/.Ī “package” is simply a macOS Finder thing about how to display folders and files that do exist but are displayed in the Finder app as a “file”. I can’t find a reference link for that understanding, so take it with a grain of salt. ![]() My understanding is that Dropbox changing, as are other Cloud sync services (Google Gdrive, Microsoft OneDrive, etc), to conform to Apple’s instructions/standard/wish/?.
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