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MajorHavoc
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3 years ago
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Backing up an NTSF drive attached to a Mac

I recently retired a Windows 10 machine that had a 12 TB NTSF drive of pictures, videos, and music attached that is 75% full. That drive was backed up to Dropbox on the Windows machine. I bought NTFS...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    3 years ago

    Hi MajorHavoc, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

     

    Currently, the supported file systems that are supported on Mac OS for Dropbox Backup are HFS+, APFS, exFAT, and FAT32. 

     

    There isn't any official workaround for these supported file systems, so if another user does provide one here, we would recommend caution when using it.

     

    If you have any further queries, feel free to message back.

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Jay
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3 years ago

If you wish, you can suggest this change for others to vote on, so the dev team can look into this in future! 

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MajorHavoc
Collaborator | Level 9
3 years ago

Ok, went to the link you suggested, and added it as a suggestion for voting, but I do not see it listed there. Is there some trick I need to know, or do some suggestions just get booted immediately?  Just curious. 

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