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Photo Library not reachable on macOS after Dropbox sync
Hello all,
I am running MaCos Ventura 13.1. I have both iCloud and Dropbox storage for my photos (call me paranoid if you like :-). I like the ability to select a photo from the photo library when ...
Hello everyone,
We have an update on this. This has occurred as Apple no longer allows Photos Library to be synced with cloud-storage services. You can find out more about this here in the Expected Changes article.
Regards,
Emmet
I've just accepted a Dropbox update which "moved" my Dropbox folder to a more secure location and now I get the error "Photos Library.photos library is in Dropbox, and needs to be moved to a folder on your Mac to open"
I use to Dropbox as my Photos location - what has happened here? This devalues my Dropbox subscription and use-case pretty significantly if I can't work around the error. FYI - to anyone saying I shouldn't be doing this - I've been synching this DB without any errors for the past 7-8 years and it's currently about 50GB in size
Emmet
Community Manager
Community ManagerHello everyone,
We have an update on this. This has occurred as Apple no longer allows Photos Library to be synced with cloud-storage services. You can find out more about this here in the Expected Changes article.
Regards,
Emmet
Hi everyone!
The Photos library shouldn't have been moved at all.
When I updated to the new version of DropBox it moved my backup folders (in this case I was backing up user/pictures and user/desktop) to the cloud folder but apparently, that was an error.
So if anyone is having their Pictures or other backed-up folders moved to the cloud folder they should reinstall the new version Dropbox from scratch. They might then need to manually move their backed-up folder content back to the normal location in their user folder.
The intended behaviour (which actually hasn't changed) for the new version of Dropbox is for backup folders to be one-way upload/backup which means it doesn't need to move to the cloud folder.
Only two-way synced files/folders need to abide by the new cloud folder rules for 13.2 Ventura.
Ok, you might want to sue Apple there for anti-competitive behavior..
For me, Dropbox loses with that it's primary appeal (one place to have all my stuff in cloud). I'll cancel my account and move to iCloud then. Grudgingly.What a mess. For those of us who are not computer savvy, this is totally confusing.
I have files on DropBox.
I use DropBox to backup files from my Mac.
And now Mac cannot access those files?
So I have to copy "Library.photoslibrary" which *appears* to be on my Mac, and paste it to... well, where? What area is *not* handled by DropBox? Please give an instruction.
This is not a DropBox thing - it's a new Apple MacOS restriction!
Just drag the Photos Library back to the Photos folder under your username. This will remove it from DropBox and put it on a "local" folder. Then double-click on the file in your Photos folder to open and make it the new default library when you open Photos.
As an aside, it's odd that I can make DropBox folders available offline – that sounds like a local order to me. But apparently Apple wants to "encourage" users to use iCloud for their Photos Library instead of letting them use DropBox.
