iCloud Drive: it definitely works the worst: no chance to define where to store offline files, super-slow sync with standstills sometimes for hours. In addition, OneDrive's sync engine is not only slow, but also error-prone and leads to sync conflicts pretty often, even if you're the only one working with a file. ![]() macOS' native cloud sync stores offline files in the user's Library folder only, and there is no way to change that. So, if you need a larger set of offline files and your internal HDD has limited capacity, you're screwed. OneDrive seems to be the only solution that fully relies on macOS' native cloud sync, so it comes with all the limitations (similar to what iCloud Drive has): your offline files cannot be stored on external devices anymore. This is really "dirty" since macOS' SMB implementation is also buggy, so it leads to even more issues and degraded performance GoogleDrive implements a dirty workaround with a local, virtual SMB server. Besides Dropbox, I have GoogleDrive, OneDrive and iCloud Drive installed as well, and they are working no better: It seems the limitations come from macOS 12.3+ related issues with regards to cloud synchronization. First the arrogance reply on the M1 support, and now the broken Smart Sync which you had ages to fix. And now macOS 13 is on it's way.Ĭlients are pushing for Onedrive and Sharepoint as replacement for dropbox – but now after 6 months waiting for a fix, my arguments can't hold ground anymore, which is sad, because dropbox is the better collaboration platform, but lack of support. I'm still repeatable trying to keep clients away from leaving Dropbox as our main collaboration platform due to this problems, and it's becoming REALLY hard to argument to keep on using Dropbox, when the solution is so broken as it is. You've had all the time in the world, but instead you focused your resources on spitting out new features, instead of fixing your broken software. This is really really unprofessional Dropbox, you made our company and my clients stuck on macOS 12.2, since you can't solve this matter. ![]() On Macrumors forum, user pasamio writes that Apple made everyone aware that the kernel used by Dropbox would be removed in future version of macOS, back in 2019! So Dropbox had the chance to prepare way early of this incoming dooming of the smart sync, which here in June 2022 still hasn't been resolved, even if Dropbox promised to do so in early 2022.
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