Long time mac user already. I won’t claim myself as mac power user in this forum but generally yes in outer world.
As we all know, Apple drops supports of some kernels about syncing after Mac OS 12.3, and it immediately causes effect on cloud apps like Onedrive and Dropbox. No surprises of Onedrive quickly follows the update as their syncing and backup mechanism were generally rubbish, many mac users complains of old-version Onedrive using too much ram and generating heat while using.
However, I deeply angry on the decision dropbox made. Dropbox was a good company in terms of syncing. Even back into 2022, their syncing technology is still so advanced that not so much companies could have such ability. I heavily relied on scrivener, which is a mac writing application that requires Dropbox to sync across different devices. But after Dropbox moves my sync folder to library/cloudstorage, everything becomes unstable, the sync mechanism is now under controlled by apple but not Dropbox, Apple made the whole dropbox as a kind of mounted network drive instead of “you data, your computer”.
As an experienced user, the sync folder is always better to be saved in local drive rather than relying on technologies like selective sync. And this time, after this update, dropbox user no longer can use dropbox function “selective sync” nor saves the dropbox folder into external drive, what you get is a network drive, an on-demand drive.
What is more is that, when you click the on-demand file and want it to be offline, dropbox is no longer engaged in this process but Apple new kernel does. I already have experienced two or three times not successfully downloaded my files, which is a disaster experience.
I never believe the Apple’s software capabilities. So does iCloud and this time the fucking new kernel. What they know and good at is on marketing, and to build a new eye-attracting i-device, I am sure the Apple Fold is coming in 1-2 years later. But they never respect our power-users, which is ironically the most loyal customers on earth.
I use a lot of third-parties softwares, such as Carbon Copy Cloner, Devonthink, MailMate. I very much like using their softwares. Their manual and support are world-class. On the other hand, windows side generally lacks on these.
I now dropped the usage of dropbox and move to Tresorit. It recalls my memories of the earlier dates of Dropbox, a nice tool.