{"id":37457,"date":"2022-10-27T15:39:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T19:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=37457"},"modified":"2022-10-28T07:44:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T11:44:16","slug":"dropbox-on-ventura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/27\/dropbox-on-ventura\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropbox on Ventura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/steipete\/status\/1584639935151493120\">Peter Steinberger<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/steipete\/status\/1584639935151493120\">\n<p>The new Dropbox version for macOS Ventura is absolute garbage. fileproviderd is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropboxforum.com\/t5\/Create-upload-and-share\/High-CPU-Usage-after-updating-MacBook-Pro-to-MacOS-Monterey-12-3\/td-p\/583880\/highlight\/false\/page\/6\">eating my CPU<\/a> alive, files are no longer really on disk so QuickLook and some apps fail, etc. How did this ship, even as beta?<\/p>\n<p>Then again, it&rsquo;s now about as unreliable as the iOS Files extension, which crashes after using it a while and the only recourse is to <em>reboot<\/em> iOS.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is not the first time that the official API ends up being less reliable than the original hacky solution.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve mostly switched to iCloud Drive, and when I do need to access Dropbox I do so via Transmit.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/24\/onedrive-root-change-and-files-on-demand\/\">OneDrive Root Change and Files On-Demand<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/23\/dropbox-and-maestral\/\">Dropbox and Maestral<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/30\/expandrive-and-file-provider-framework\/\">ExpanDrive and File Provider Framework<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Steinberger: The new Dropbox version for macOS Ventura is absolute garbage. fileproviderd is eating my CPU alive, files are no longer really on disk so QuickLook and some apps fail, etc. How did this ship, even as beta? Then again, it&rsquo;s now about as unreliable as the iOS Files extension, which crashes after using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-10-27T19:39:45Z","apple_news_api_id":"90415929-9a9f-4fdb-98b2-95f0ab2473f7","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-10-28T11:44:18Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AkEFZKZqfT9uYspXwqyRz9w","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[47,2164,30,32,2223,243],"class_list":["post-37457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-dropbox","tag-file-provider-extensions","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-13-ventura","tag-transmit"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37457"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37487,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37457\/revisions\/37487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}