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Dropbox removing external disk support for Mac users
In case anyone's unaware... if you're a Mac user storing your Dropbox on an external drive, you'll shortly lose that ability.
https://talk.tidbits.com/t/dropbox-drops-support-for-storing-files-...
"Now stop threatening Dropbox with cancelling your subscriptions..."
who are you to give us orders?
"they are obviously aware of how important this issue is, and can't afford to fall behind other cloud storage providers who are supporting external storage already!"
no they're not, and they've been falling behind on many things sadly (plans, now this)
hopefully you're a dropbox employee in disguise but either way your 'solution' doesn't feel very safe
shinbeth
I should have put a " š " after "now stop and"...I am sorry if it offended you, truly, but it wasn't meant as an order, but as a friendly suggestion...should have known that all humor has left this discussion a while ago.
...and no, I am not a Db employee...just trying to be of service and relaying to the community what worked for me...I just did the same thing on my Mac Mini M1 file server, and pointed Dropbox at my external 2TB SSD that holds the entirety of my Dropbox, and after indexing the folder, all is well...but you obviously see me as the enemy here, so take it or leave it and keep being angry.
We have 45TB uploaded to Dropbox and utilize our main DB folder on an external RAID volume in our 2019 Mac Pro (32TB Pegasus R4i) - this change will have drastic effects for our company.
As a precaution, we have opted to sync all files to online-only until a solution is developed.
(BTW: We recently uploaded 20TB to the DB cloud. Upload took 3 days. However, the online-only sync took about 3 weeks to process completely. So CAUTION to those trying to sync TB's of data "off" their drives via the Online-Only process.
I have everything synced to online only, about 800 gb. I created an iMovie library just yesterday before reading all about this to save movies "to the cloud." I'm downloading everything in the Dropbox to a 2TB and I plan on ditching Dropbox. I have 1TB on OneDrive (though I hate their interface) and 200GB right now with Apple. I'm going to look into Googly and maybe use them vs. Dropbox. This is just the "last straw." I hated when they made changes a few years ago to where you needed a road map to "just simply" share or download something. I get the constant "upgrade," "check out the new way we've added tons of steps to do something simple," and "sync your synched sharing by sharing with your colleagues that you may not have but have to use" system. Yes or Okay? Done paying people to sit around in meetings coming up with ways to make things more difficult.
Yes you should have.
Why make things complicated? Just get a large internal SSD drive (eg. 8TB) instead of having to back a ridiculously low 2TB external hard drive and try to sync it with Dropbox LOL
Why are you/Dropbox making things so complicated when they shouldn't.
Why spend more money if you don't have to? Oh, right. The American way. The whole point of this cloud business is so you DON"T have to buy a huge internal, right? Isn't that why they make the computers smaller? Because you supposedly don't need the internal? Asterisk? Footnote? Hurdle? Hoop? I thought the cloud was to make it less complicated. You know, like self check out lanes. Ha.
"Why spend more money if you don't have to? Oh, right. The American way. The whole point of this cloud business is so you DON"T have to buy a huge internal, right?"
That's one reason, yes. But no the only one:
We use cloud sync with our external huge drives to allow collaboration with audio/video editing. The workflow for lots of media houses with people who collaborate in multiple locations requires files be local (speed of editing and playback), and sync through the cloud not only facilitates that, it also backs up all the files in case of catastrophe.
- Because my Mac Mini only has 512GB, internally, and I donāt have the money to ājust getā a 2TB Mac Mini, when this one works perfectly well. I am surprised that you would laugh about people who canāt ājustā spend a couple thousand bucks on a whim, to solve an issue that can be solved with a $200 external SSD. Wish I had your deep pockets.
But letās just keep the personal comments at bay and try to focus on the issue at hand, again: an official Db solution to Appleās Cloud API changes.Exactly. I'll probably be leaving this thread soon (that I personally started) because I really never got a confirmation on my solution (though it appears putting everything online only if you can swing that, is the answer). However, as I say, I'm just over Dropbox and their constant manipulation. I seriously just need extra storage and way to share something occasionally that is large. There are even "freebies" online that can do that now. In a way, I'm glad this has shown up and lit the fire for me to finally stop giving them tons of money when there are other obvious solutions for me.
tillkrueger It's so absurd we have to use emojis ... but "social" media has made simply conversation via typing so hard to read, right? I had no issue with what your wrote; I assume your apology was directed to someone else in the thread. Have a great day and thanks for your share.
- Yes, someone took offense, so thank you for saying that.
