> Calendar sync? Why on Earth would FILE SYNCHRONIZATION application wants to access my calendar?
It's very handy to have shared calendars across multiple devices. Dropbox's advertised solution for this is garbage because I have no interest in letting Google or Outlook manage my calendars.
But there's another solution that used to work with Dropbox that doesn't any more. And the breakage is Apple's fault, not Dropbox's. Say you have two Macs and you want their Calendar apps to be in sync. Further, you don't want to use iCloud because you know from painful experience that Apple has no idea how to sync anything properly. It used to be possible to move ~/Library/Calendars to Dropbox and put a folder symlink in its place. If you do this on both machines, Dropbox automagically syncs your calendars. But in later versions of MacOS when you replace Library folders with symlinks the apps in question stop working. Thanks Apple. Looks like Syncthing might fix this problem for me again, and I won't even need Dropbox any more.
> It's very handy to have shared calendars across multiple devices.
CalDAV should have you covered there. While the need for a server may be a bit inconvenient, I doubt that usability would be on par with it when you just copy the files instead (think of alerts, sharing calendars with others, etc). Also, there is no iOS Syncthing client when your phone probably is the most important device to have your calendars on.
> Calendar sync? Why on Earth would FILE SYNCHRONIZATION application wants to access my calendar?
It's very handy to have shared calendars across multiple devices. Dropbox's advertised solution for this is garbage because I have no interest in letting Google or Outlook manage my calendars.
But there's another solution that used to work with Dropbox that doesn't any more. And the breakage is Apple's fault, not Dropbox's. Say you have two Macs and you want their Calendar apps to be in sync. Further, you don't want to use iCloud because you know from painful experience that Apple has no idea how to sync anything properly. It used to be possible to move ~/Library/Calendars to Dropbox and put a folder symlink in its place. If you do this on both machines, Dropbox automagically syncs your calendars. But in later versions of MacOS when you replace Library folders with symlinks the apps in question stop working. Thanks Apple. Looks like Syncthing might fix this problem for me again, and I won't even need Dropbox any more.