PT is 2021.12 (Ultimate) and Dropbox is 1. I am on an older cheesegrater running Mojave for my main production but have a couple MacBooks running PT as well. Just checked one in Dropbox and it seems fine. I have all kinds of sessions in Dropbox, One Drive and G Drive folders. The change also applies to GoogleDrive but I don't use that on my Mac so I'm not clear how it's been implemented. It's not clear to me why some of the cloud vendors have resorted to 'online-only' as a default for new files, but it can be changed to local for both Dropbox and OneDrive. While that may be a good thing overall, it has resulted in the local files that you had before either being deleted (and needing re-syncing) or in the application having to move them to a new location in the background. The version I have is v1 on Monterey 12.3 beta 4 (21E5222a).Īpple have forced files managed by external cloud services to be placed in their own (APFS?) container for security. The change from Apple happened somewhere around Monterey 12.2 so unless you are running that or later, there is a strong possibility that Dropbox is not updated to a version which is enforcing the change. But I tend to ignore each new 'feature' introduced. I only need the service to do this basic thing and it has worked solidly for me for years. Instead I prefer to 'Copy Dropbox Link' and paste it into an email. And I never choose 'Share' because the recipient is then asked to open their own account. I only use this service to share large files.

I wouldn't be surprised though if a first time install of Dbox defaults to the settings you've described. Plus 'Files added on web default: Local'. Under 'Save hard drive space automatically' there is an ON and OFF choice. The option is clearly available locally from the menubar icon > user's initials > preferences > and then the Sync tab. My version of Dropbox for Mac (currently v1 via the auto update behavior) has not defaulted to cloud only.

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