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Forum Discussion
Moving Dropbox folder from ~/Library/CloudStorage
What is the reason for not allowing me to specify where I want to save my Dropbox files in Ventura? I don't have enough space in my system drive to keep a copy of my Dropbox files. And yes, I need ...
Hello goodnight.
I'm using the Ventura version, and I also had the same problem, analyzing my Logs, and observing the Forum messages, I performed a battery of tests.
1. Reinstall via homebrew (same error)
2. Manual reinstall (same error)Then I went to other levels of execution, when running as Root, it worked at first.
Puff, it dawned on me, permission was the problem.
I reset the permissions. (same error) lol 😞
I decided to run the binaries via terminal.
"cd /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/MacOS"
Then "./Dropbox"
However, I still got error.
Realizing that it had worked as root, and there were indications of permissions.
I decided to delete the root folders.
"/Users/elizeu/.dropbox"
"/Users/elizeu/Dropbox"IT WORKED.!!!!
Running as RootRunning as a regular user, after excluding local folders.synchronizingHe follows:
Jay
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHi mrforged, thanks for messaging the Community.
With the new version of the Dropbox desktop application for Mac OS, changing the location of your Dropbox folder is no longer supported by the OS itself.
It will need to be stored on the CloudStorage folder, and can't be moved to another internal or external drive.
If you have any further queries, feel free to message back.
This must be Apple's way of moving everyone away from Dropbox to iCloud. I don't have 2TB of internal storage. But it looks like Google Drive uses some kind of alias to have the drive folder located on an external drive. ??? I love Dropbox, but I may have to move to Google Drive. 😛
