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.