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jongala | 3 years ago

IMO the other really big deal here is that ~/Library is a hidden folder by default. For most users Dropbox will only be exposed under the "Locations" section in finder sidebars. That feels like a huge regression to me — the whole idea of Dropbox was "a folder, that syncs." An invisible folder that syncs is much worse!

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pancrufty|3 years ago

Clearly it’s not invisible. While you can’t target it by typing ~/Dropbox, people using the Finder won’t notice a difference.

figomore|3 years ago

In the update process Dropbox moves the folder to the new location and creates ~/Dropbox as a symbolic link to the new location. So you cd ~/Dropbox

knaik94|3 years ago

If a user can't open or target a folder by typing in the location, it's useless for any meaningful file management. This feels like macOS is becoming more like iOS instead of the other way around. There is a setting to re-enable it, but it shouldn't need a setting.

tempodox|3 years ago

> ~/Library is a hidden folder by default.

You can do

  $ chflags nohidden ~/Library
in the terminal, but most users won't know this.