Dropbox was one of the first cloud storage services to arrive (2007) and, thus, to attract the attention of users. However, the visibility of new platforms and the limited space provided by users in the free format (which can be gradually increased by completing other tasks) have gradually lost the faithful.
There are also no major changes applicable to platforms like MacOS more recently, another reason has been for loss of interest to users. However, the American cloud hosting service is taking steps in this regard and its beta version has features similar to Apple's iCloud Drive.
Desktop Sync, Docs and Downloads Folders
One of the new features of iCloud Drive is folder sharing, but before its arrival iCloud is enabled synchronizing MacOS document documents with Desktop folders to make your files available on all iOS devices.
With the latest beta version of Dropbox, the file sync system has been significantly improved. To date, the app has only synced your folder, however it is now able to do with others like Text, Downloads and Desktop. On 9to5Mac they have already been able to test it and it seems to work fine (tested in the Downloads folder). The company announced that the first engine of the time had been recorded:
For the last four years we've been working hard to rebuild our desktop client synchronization engine from scratch. The synchronization engine is the magic behind the Dropbox folder on our computers, and it is one of the oldest and most important pieces of Dropbox code. We are proud to announce that we have created a new synchronization engine (codename "Nucleus") for all Dropbox users.
"Nucleus" is a native of macOS and other platforms because Electron is positioned for development. It is not yet known when this feature will be available in the last version of the app.. The last one to build, at 94.3.379, was published a few days ago. It can be downloaded from the official forums for both Windows and macOS and Linux.
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