Not Just Dropbox Affected by macOS Update As more and more users have updated their operating systems and restarted their apps, they’ve discovered the issue around Dropbox and external hard drives appears to be permanent.

While some at the time expressed hope the release of macOS Ventura would resolve everything, that doesn’t appear to be the case. As recently as October of 2022, Dropbox users posting in Mac forums openly wondered, “ Is it safe to upgrade macOS past 12.1 now?” Users, however, weren’t entirely convinced. Problems opening online-only Dropbox files was another huge issue that cropped up, although one that seems to have been resolved after Dropbox’s August announcement that it would release a public beta of its new Mac desktop app with full macOS Monterey support. That’s when Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive both warned of looming compatibility issues, such as difficulties opening online files in third-party apps, associated with the OS update. The update actually wasn’t all that recent: MacOS Monterey 12.3, the first OS to feature the new API, was released in March 2022, although rumblings about potential disruptions began to emerge as early as January of last year.

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