- Dropbox mac accessibility update#
- Dropbox mac accessibility full#
- Dropbox mac accessibility password#
Dropbox mac accessibility update#
It will update itself, even if you disable/remove the launchd plist that tells the updater to run, and even if you delete the /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources/DropboxMacUpdate.app app, which wouldn’t be so bad except that their releases regularly include regression bugs which cause your computer to ‘index’ continually. The app is basically impossible to manage. Not only do they not have an M1 compatible version yet, but they won’t even respond to questions about when/if it might be available. If I want to share that with my family, it’s something like $200/year for no additional storage. I have a 2TB account, which costs me about $120/year, I think. When I had a problem with my Dropbox account, they told me I had too many files, despite the fact that I was using barely 1/2 of the mandatory 2TB that I am required to pay for because it was the lowest storage tier available after their minuscule “free” plan. Dropbox downloaded 1.2TB over my Internet connection instead of using LAN sync, which I ensured was enabled on all the Macs on my network.) I recently setup Dropbox on a 3rd computer and wanted a complete version on that computer too.
Dropbox mac accessibility full#
(I have two full local copies of my 1.2TB Dropbox on my LAN. Made worse by #8Įven existing features that people do want, like LAN sync, don’t actually work and never get improved. It is also painfully slow to setup on a new Mac. It is regularly the highest CPU usage on my Mac, even when it isn’t doing anything. They abuse the notifications to tell you about features like “Dropbox Paper” that no one wants
They add features no one wants (like an app that appears in your Dock to use instead of the Finder) They have proven themselves untrustworthy So, by saying yes once to Dropbox’s request for your admin password, they gave themselves free reign over your Mac basically forever. The worst part is that the app works just fine without your admin password, and I don’t know what Dropbox is doing with my admin password, but I do know that they have used it before to basically give themselves unfettered free admin access to your computer by creating a special tool that would run as an admin and basically do whatever Dropbox wanted. You can tell it not to nag you about Accessibility again if you want, but if you choose not to give it your admin password, it will prompt you every single time the Dropbox app updates - which is a lot.
Dropbox mac accessibility password#
I literally just installed it, and it asks for you to enter your admin password “in order for Dropbox to work properly” and it asks for Accessibility “to get the most out of Dropbox”. You probably said yes once, and that’s all it needed. Still no better option for a business that needs control of data and personnel.
I think Dropbox is rock solid but hogs resources and is also getting to have more functionality than I really am asking from it.
Working from home this year exposed the same problem on my iMac 3015 5k with fusion drive. Also selectively synced data so each computer had less historical data to deal with. I upgraded all the computers to SSD and 16GB RAM. Dropbox and spinning disks could not handle this. We started having crashes and really long restarts.Įven today we only have about 130GB of data. All good.Ībout 5 years ago we started having issues at work. I have a business account and it works just as advertised. I am probably one you read about criticizing dropbox.
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