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May 14th, 2024

Maestral, an Open-Source Dropbox Client

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If you have a Dropbox account, even a basic free one, you'd be well served to install Maestral, an open-source Dropbox client for macOS. It allows you to locate your Dropbox folder wherever you want, not just in your ~/Library/Cloud Storage folder where Apple wants to force you to keep your files. Since it's not an official Dropbox client, it doesn't even count against your three-device limit. Having even a basic Dropbox account can be useful if you use IFTTT, want to avoid iCloud for any reason or have legacy apps that require Dropbox. Maestral even allows you to have multiple accounts on the same computer. It has fine grained controls to dial in selective sync however you want. The application has been around for a while and is still under active development. There is documentation available for technical subjects like symlink compatibility and gitignore files. If you don't feel sufficiently challenged in life, Maestral even has a CLI for you to use. I am not the Dev.

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