This change happened a long time ago, I'm surprised you're just now getting the notification. When you go to your home folder, instead of a dropbox folder, you will find an alias to the new Dropbox folder location, which is buried somewhere in your Max library folder structure. Just treat it like you always have, and ignore the change. You will never know the difference..
- Brad - On Dec 21, 2025, at 16:44, Lorie McCloud <[email protected]> wrote: they changed some things in dropbox and that’s why this announcement came up. the announcement says dropbox is now in locations rather than favorites. where is locations and what’s the best way to get there. in its place is an alias. I don’t know what those are for or what to do with them. > On Dec 19, 2025, at 11:46 PM, Brad Snyder <[email protected]> wrote: > > You hear these announcements because you have dropbox notifications enabled > in the Max notification settings. These announcements can be turned off if > you prefer. > > - Brad - > > On Dec 19, 2025, at 22:40, Herbie Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > > That would be the amount of data Dropbox has stored on your computer. > >> On Dec 19, 2025, at 19:01, Lorie McCloud <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I’ve had dropbox on my Mac for ages. right now I’m running the highest >> iteration of Sequoia I think it’s 15.1 and today in the middle of something >> else I was listening to, vo started talking about dropbox downloading files. >> I thought maybe somebody had put a bunch of stuff in one of my folders. >> later I looked at it and it was still on my desktop but it said “dropbox >> alias”. all the folders were there or appeared to be but it said it was 48 >> bytes. what does this mean? >> >> thanks. >> Lorie >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >> Visionaries list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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