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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-...
psalcal that's brilliant. Made my weekend. 🤣
ppadmin they just can't help themselves. They cannot fix one thing properly and they yet go on about something else they must do now. How about fixing this rather large problem first? No wonder they're in trouble.
"Dropbox CEO Drew Houston wrote in the blog post that the company has been reckoning with slowing growth, in part due to a maturation of its business, but also as a result of economic headwinds that are pressuring its customers." No mate, not that at all. Everyone is just now better than you. They've turned themselves into a Microsoft type of company, bloatware. So sad.
Doesn't matter to me anymore. I've moved about 2TB over to Sync already and am starting the copying of all our video files next week. Doing it a really long way round but should save me personally a load of time.
Does Sync work with an external drive? Are you using Ventura? Tks
marcosdutra YES, Sync works on external drives. I have its running on external drives with 2 different Macs.
ALSO, Google says it IS possible to run iCloud on an external drive. I am quoting their instructions and take no responsibility for failures here. That said, Google reports:
"Can you put iCloud on external drive?"Step 1: Open Finder and click “iCloud Drive” in the left sidebar. Step 2: Select the content that you are willing to sync and right-click on it. Then choose “Copy 'Documents'” in the menu. Step 3: Paste the copied content to your external hard drive and wait for it done.May 10, 2023"- Leaving Dropbox is not an option for me at this time. I have multiple clients who share their folders with me - all of them would need to be on board with moving to another service. And the same service at that… just to be where we have been before this fiasco.
ms25 W hear you loud and clear. The problem is that DropBox users with external drive installations are between a rock and a hard place, with no guarantee that the temporary fix of using the "old" version of DropBox may not always work. So these users are on borrowed time. It's been months since the new guidelines were announced, and although we've been told that DropBox is "working on" a solution to allow us to keep using external drives, we've been given no dates — not even a target date! — for a solution to be released.
