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If you love Dropbox, it’s time to upgrade your Mac

Dropbox for Mac is the easiest way to store, sync and share files online. Dropbox works just like any other folder on your computer, but with a few differences. Any files or folders inside Dropbox will get synchronized to Dropbox 's servers and any other computer linked to your account.

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Green checkmarks will appear on top of your files to let you know that they're synced and up to date. Dropbox keeps track of every change made to any of its contents.

My computer is no longer supported. What should I do?

It's free to download and use 2GB of online storage for free , with up to 1TB available to paying customers. Wherever you are Put your stuff in Dropbox for Mac and get to it from your computers, phones, or tablets. Edit docs, automatically add photos, and show off videos from anywhere. Share with confidence Share photos with friends.

Work with your team like you're using a single computer. Everything's automatically private, so you control who sees what. There is an active older systems community, and they are still developing software compatible with the older systems. The Mac side could use a bit of help though. Skype recently logged out everyone using anything older than OS X Fortunately, there is an easy hack that makes it work again, proving that there was no technical reason to exclude people with older systems.

Sometimes it is tempting to go to Windows where backwards compatibility is generally assured. Or Linux where no-one is forced to do anything. I dropped Snow Leopard on one last machine and have regretted it every day since. I look at the PC here and it's a very fast machine that can still run Eudora. Hell, a bit of compatibility magic and the PC can even run VisiCalc just to prove the point. Plus, high powered PCs have staggering expandability and wide software options. I've been a hard core Apple loyalist since , going through dozens of computers.

But lack of backwards compatibility, lack of clarity on the direction forward a trash can now and vague promises for later and Cook's million bucks to hate group SPLC which pretends to be anti-hate suggest it's finally time to make the obvious move to Windows. I expect Dropbox to be out of business within 5 years, 10 at the most. Thousands had used it to provide links to documents, photos, etc. Dropbox could have just eliminated it for new users and grandfathered their older users for the feature, but noooooo they had to actively drive away their customer base.

A lot are moving to pCloud. The Public folder was redundant. You get better functionality from a specific link to the file. That said, it seems unnecessary to remove it. Tell that to the thousands of paying Dropbox users who just had all their carefully crafted links on all their web pages disappear.

The workaround s are too cumbersome to do the same job s. Basically, DP just decided to say "Foxtrot Yankee" to a large group of their paying customers.

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We had to have those programs to work the occasional freelance jobs and keep up to date. We spent thousands of dollars on those programs, thousands! I still use CS 6. One friends last owned version is InDesign 3, horrors. Adobe, Microsoft etc. This one makes me see red. We're stuck! Now Google Drive is being wound up.

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No this is not bad news despite the headlines. It is being replaces by Google Backup and Sync which seems to be better. For one thing, you can choose which folders it backs up, rather than having to put everything a single folder. For another, it works from Lion up. This issue is as old as computers. Complaining about DropBox ending support for old systems is shoveling sand against the tide. All the major web browsers stopped supporting anything older than OS X That doesn't mean you cannot run older versions, it just means you don't get feature and security updates. For some people these issues are trivial.

On the other hand, if you want or need access to the modern web, you have to keep your stuff up to date. The simplest solution is the one Michael mentions. Keep an old computer around to run the old software you need—and if you're smart you'll keep it off the web. Use a new computer where functionality and performance are important.

As for Microsoft supporting old systems, that is a thing of the past. They are following Apple's lead and leaving the laggards behind. Anything older than Windows 7 is dead meat. And even that has a definite EOL date.

They are trying hard to move everyone to Windows I have no doubt this is to reduce support costs, as it is with Apple. The same imperative affects software developers.