So our current solution is to map out all the file paths and adentify the last common enclosing folder, and right click and locally sync that folder. Microsoft documents cloud based linked files get automatically locally synced when needed, so it's not a Dropbox issue, it's an Adobe software glitch, possibly intentional to bug Dropbox customers to move to Adobe Cloud. I have come to the conclusion that Adobe engineers are just being pr**ks to anyone using Dropbox and have broken their competitors integration, and that this problem doesn't occur for Adobe Cloud customers.

And the only solution in Monterey is to get out of InDesign, and mess around in Finder manually locally syncing all the linked files, which for a big business like ours, means navigating to a bunch of different locations. Now, if you were to open the same file shown in my video n Monterey, the process does not work. So just to be clear, the video shows that under Big Sur, zero-file size cloud only linked files do automatically get converted to downloaded 'locally synced green' as soon as you right click on any of the yellow artery's and choose 'update link for all'. Sorry it's a really slow video to watch (recorded on an 2015 12' MacBook that was still running Big Sur. So why can't you turn off the feature Smart Sync for Dropbox? And I have no issues with packaged InDesign documents on all of my Dropbox folders that I share with my clients or students. I never see a cloud symbol on one of my files on Dropbox. I'm on Windows 10 and I have Dropbox Smart Sync turned off altogether. Or stay on Big Sur if that's possible at all. I have no idea if this is a new behavior of Dropbox on MacOS. 'They tell me that 'cloud only' (zero file size) linked files in InDesign on macOS Monterey need to first be locally synced to prevent this workflow error message pop-up - but this didn't used to be the case under macOS Big Sur.' Or am I missing something? I'm confused, thought the issue was with InDesign on MacOS Monterey… So do you already have the problem with Dropbox on MacOS Big Sur?

Looked into your video where you show a machine with MacOS Big Sur and InDesign 2022.Īnd with a problem accessing linked files in an InDesign document that are stored on a Dropbox volume. 'Dropbox Support do not seem to understand that the Monterey implementation of online only/local file syncing no longer functions the way it used to under Big Sur.'

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