Dropbox on Mac now updates itself with a process in background

Re:Dropbox on Mac now updates itself with a process in backg... by dexcs on Friday March 24, 2017 @03:08AM (#13947221)

I wonder how they did the auto-update that brought that feature to me... I have a pretty shitty internet connection here and i recognized the dropbox updater sucking up my bandwidth yesterday... I've not triggered any manual update...

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Re:Dropbox on Mac now updates itself with a process in backg... by phobius on Friday March 24, 2017 @03:44AM (#13947324)

Thought this too as soon as the notification popped up.

To the best of my knowledge I haven't updated recently, so they've basically had an auto-update feature sitting dormant for a while.

Nothing fishy here.

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Re:Dropbox on Mac now updates itself with a process in backg... by brians on Friday March 24, 2017 @08:22AM (#13948390)

They've had an auto-updater for many years. They've now separated it into a separate process, so the Dropbox sync daemon doesn't have to have privileges to self-modify.

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