The majority of these were in the 'Library' directory. Terminal gives much more information about the copy failures, which are sometimes 'Permission Denied' or 'No Such File or Directory' or 'unable to copy extended attributes' &c &c. However, Ventura prevented me from copying the Home folder - all kinds of files were not given permission. I've tried to delete the dropbox folder in it's hidden pathname Root:/Users/~username~/Library/CloudStorage, but now Dropbox has broken and can't read the tried excellent idea of copying the user directory over to my partition drive (I keep my 2nd drive internal to the machine - and yes, SSD only! Hence major investment for a 4T drive to sync locally and in cloud).

This is not a 'happy alignment' issue, this is a major, critical system change, and will cause a major system shift and departure from Dropbox. I've been paying for my dropbox subscription for years for this very setup, competing for grants to fund it and battling with local institutions to prevent them forcing me to one drive. My career is on the line if I don't get my book out on time, and this has become a major obstacle. My entire research archive and setup has been based around Mac's superior indexing for the last 9 years. I have to be able to search my archive at my fingertips - cloud computing ain't going to cut it - you don't provide the speed or accuracy, and it's no good to me in the cloud when I'm an some archive somewhere trying to compare 'We must keep aligned' response is just placebo talk - it does nothing. This, naturally, needs to be kept on a partition drive, on my new rig, otherwise it's extremely unsafe.

I am an academic, and have 3.0 Terabytes of scholarship and academic articles and manuscripts indexed, physically on my harddrive on my old rig.

I bought my whole system, and spent a year writing a grant to do it, just for the capability of dropbox archiving a fully indexed research archive. I've just bought a new MacBook pro, and am only able to install a Ventura OS.

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