Media bay can't see my dropbox folder

Cubase
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Hi.

I keep all my samples and loops in a dropbox folder that is kept on my computer. I think we I re installed cubase 13 I may have not given cubase permission to access my dropbox folder when prompted. I went to my OSX settings and allowed all programs to access the dropbox folders but the dropbox folder still hasn’t shown up in media bay. Not sure what to do.

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Hi,

This is not recommended and I have already seen many crashes with this setup.

But if you want to take the risk… Can Cubase see the Dropbox folder, if you try to Save or Open any project?

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Oh interesting, sounds like it might be better not to do this.

Cubase can not currently see the dropbox folder. Before I reinstalled it tho it could see the folder.

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Sorry I mean I can save my projects locally and in dropbox (in dropbox but a copy left on my computer) I just seems to be a media bay issue

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I have the same problem. When you have Gigabytes of samples you want them to stay safe so keeping them in a Dropbox folder makes sense. Why MediaBay can’t read them I have no idea. Did anyone find a workaround yet?

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It’s probably best to stick to one thread and not duplicate them.

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Agreed, but when the post is over a year old and dead I wanted to see if anyone new had any new solution. It appears not.

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Not a “new solution” for Dropbox, though I thought they (Dropbox) had fixed permission issues and sync-status flags for “cloud-only” files that don’t really exist locally (or whatever permutation of issue Dropbox creates). I get 2TB for $9.99/month in iCloud with seamless integration for Documents without any of those issues.

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My files all exist locally, they’re just also sync’d to the cloud. I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple do something different for their own cloud storage which allows Cubase to “see” them.

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For all those struggling like I was, MediaBay doesn’t seem to link Symbolic Links so you need to find the canonical location of the folder, in my case it’s here:

/Users/[username]/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox

I added this folder. I also gave full disk access to Cubase 14 which you can do in the Privacy and Security setting on a mac.