Yeah, at this point we’re repeating conversations that have already been had elsewhere (and linked to), so it’s getting a bit redundant. But there was a time when Dropbox itself was strongly warned against, officially.
It wasn’t understood yet, what a conflict was, or how software might need to react to that to handle it, rather than have it end up looking like data loss.
Myths arose, as to package formats being delicate, complex and special creatures that sync doesn’t work with. Then one day Dropbox was considered safe, and now it was other things that weren’t “compatible”, on it goes. As said before, thread after thread, time and time again.
Yeah, that works fine! I used it for years back when AirDrop sent it directly to Scrivener. Now you do have to send it to Files and then save it in Scrivener’s folder. Apple broke something way back (iOS 14 I think) that made it so folders aren’t something you can send to individual apps. It’s no big deal though, the workaround is fine.
Wrong, wrong, and wrong. It is in fact crashing, and not because I’m not entering my password. Yes, I could give it privelege if it went about asking for it in a secure way, the way legitimate apps do now. That’s why there are fingerprints and Face-ID and passcode and other ways of verifying access.
It will in fact run without the password. It just won’t do it on the beta because it crashes. The “for Dropbox to run properly” is in fact a lie.
Why don’t you simply operate without dropbox for now?
If the issue is real, you are not the only one, and it is not viable for any company.
Surely they’ll fix it, soon enough.
For all the trouble it seems to cause you, you could sync via email (as an extreme example) that it would likely still be better than your current state.
Else, @AmberV told you that the OS you use is barely making its first baby steps, and not safe for “real work”. So why not downgrade for a while. Let the dust settle?
I am a Windows user but it is the same : I always wait a good while before upgrading to any new version of the OS.
If it blows up, I’ll watch from the side. No need or desire to have it blow up right in my face. (They DO fuckup sometimes.) – I’m still running Windows 10. It works, so…
It’s as if people replying here haven’t read the thread: (1) I said multiple times that I was not using Dropbox anymore. (2) I said multiple times that this discussion was academic. (3) I said multiple times that it has nothing whatsoever to do with the beta, that everything I said applied to the OS before upgrading. (4) I said that I would use airdrop.
Everything you talked about has already been resolved in this thread.
Yes, we’ve seen that, yet responded reasonably to unfounded suggestions that Dropbox was no longer trustworthy, akin to malware etc etc, when it is a reputable service that millions use daily. We get that you don’t like Dropbox, for whatever reason.
You’re fully entitled to not use Dropbox on current or beta versions of macOS, and to use any service you want to share projects, and L&L staff and others have shared some suggestions to assist you.
We’re all over the moon for you that you’ve selected an alternative and that its all been resolved.