You have Dropbox installed at home on your laptop, at work on your desktop, and on your mobile device. Syncing all the folders eats u. Dropbox is known as the gold standard of file syncing and it’s not surprising. It’s available on a wide range of desktop and mobile operating systems and requires almost no user intervention to use - if ever there was an app that deserved to be described as “it just works”, then Dropbox would be it. I recently bought a new MacBook Air - M1 2020 running Mac OS 11.1 - (20C69) - and migrated everything from my old MacBook. I noticed that dropbox had stopped syncing new local files created on the new MacBook Air to dropbox. I have deleted the app and reinstalled with the latest version of dropbox (115.4.601). Open your User folder, right-click on the folder Desktop, select Properties, open the Location Tab, and click Move; now pick the new location (Dropbox folder) and click Apply. It's like magic.

As per the report, the Dropbox Beta app for Mac can now support syncing desktop, documents and downloads folder along with the special folder. Till now, the sync feature of Dropbox was just.

Dropbox is one of the most popular cloud file storage. However, the service has not been as appealing as iCloud to the users of Apple Mac because of its limited sync functionality. However, it seems that the company is now finally on the path to expand its functionality.

As per the report, the Dropbox Beta app for Mac can now support syncing desktop, documents and downloads folder along with the special folder. Till now, the sync feature of Dropbox was just limited to a special folder on macOS.

Once it is enabled, there will be a Mac folder in your dropbox containing all of your downloads folder. However, do note that this is for the Dropbox beta app, which is not easy to get hold of and the release of this feature to the official app is still pending.

Sync Mac Desktop With Dropbox

The development comes just weeks after Dropbox revealed that it has reworked its core sync engine to make it easier to maintain and improve reliability.

Dropbox Mac Sync Desktop

Since the free version of Dropbox is limited to just 2 GB, the addition of this new feature can only be helpful if you are using one of the paid tiers. If you are a paid user of Dropbox, then this feature could come in handy as a seamless backup option.