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Sami k's avatar
Sami k
Helpful | Level 5
4 years ago
Solved

Can't put the folder on an external drive on MacOS

  I chose dropbox just because it gets on an external disk, can't anymore? I'm totally frustrated, last year 3 months didn't work at all for MacOs ..
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    4 years ago
    BJRo wrote:

    Why on earth would Dropbox try and force storage of over 100GB of data inside the user /Library directory?

    This isn't Dropbox's doing; it's a new restriction put in place by Apple. Changing the location of your Dropbox folder is no longer supported by macOS.

     

BJRo's avatar
BJRo
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

How to solve this? Need to install dropbox on a separate partition, same drive.

  • BJRo's avatar
    BJRo
    New member | Level 2
    4 years ago

    Why on earth would Dropbox try and force storage of over 100GB of data inside the user /Library directory? How to fix this? With symbolic links? Help! Any advice? Was working fine before stored in a custom location under the within the user folder but in a different directory.

    • Rich's avatar
      Rich
      Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
      4 years ago
      BJRo wrote:

      Why on earth would Dropbox try and force storage of over 100GB of data inside the user /Library directory?

      This isn't Dropbox's doing; it's a new restriction put in place by Apple. Changing the location of your Dropbox folder is no longer supported by macOS.

       

      • Yegor's avatar
        Yegor
        Explorer | Level 4
        3 years ago

        This is a FALSE answer. Stop lying to people!!!

        It was DropBox's choice to use this optional Apple library and that's the reason I'm moving away from DropBox after 10 years of use.

  • esf's avatar
    esf
    Helpful | Level 6
    3 years ago

    Hi, how does this solve the space constraint?  

    • William H.51's avatar
      William H.51
      New member | Level 2
      3 years ago

      Can we use symlink for this destination to external drive? 

      If this can't be solved, will be forced to start using alternative like Resilio or Nextcloud. 

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