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Jon C.10
3 years agoCollaborator | Level 8
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-...
- 2 years agoHi Everybody,We’re excited to share that external drive support for Dropbox for macOS on File Provider is now available for testing as a beta feature. This is available to some users today and will be available to additional users on a rolling basis. In order to be eligible to test this feature, please follow the instructions in this Help Center article.Keep in mind that participation in beta programs is subject to the certain terms and conditions. There are certain additional participation requirements:
- This beta is only available to US-based users
- You must be on macOS 15 beta
- You must have an external drive that is APFS formatted and encrypted
Please let me know if you have any further questions!
TheMainOne
3 years agoCollaborator | Level 9
Hi ArthurPix,
Half the time I think these publications rank things based on either nonsense or kickbacks. Although I have no evidence to prove any of it. But when I see things like you linked, I just have to shake my head.
Like I said as well, I really wish I could stay on dropbox. The fact is it just won't work for me anymore. Also I no longer trust them. But that's a story for another day.
I understand what you are saying about sync dot con. The problem for me is that their tech-support was absolutely useless. Dumb as rocks. So it didn't help me. I never could get about 400 GB uploaded. It's spewed errors and choked constantly. I later figured out that I had a file type that I didn't like. But at that point I was done.
And I do understand that pcloud is not the biggest. But it is blazing fast. At the same level as dropbox for me. And it competes with sync by allowing you to put up files that are encrypted in a special folder. And that's free at the business level. You pay more for it at the personal level. But I came to realize with all that I have been searching for, that I really don't need much of anything encrypted. So the few documents that I might want to encrypt I can. The rest of it I choose blinding fast speed.
I intend to continue to monitor this space. I really appreciate your thoughts on this. If any of us find anything of value, I hope we post here because it is really helpful.
I'll do the same.
ArthurPix
3 years agoCollaborator | Level 10
TheMainOne Sync is certainly not perfect, but their support for me has been almost immediate. It could be that my problems were simpler to resolve. I was having terrible trouble with an apparent slowdown, but they came back at me and admitted lots of users had been having trouble with the latest release of the new desktop app on May 23. They gave me an uninstall app and a link to the previous release. It solved everything, and I kind of wonder if at least some of your troubles stemmed from this. In any case, their pricing suits me and their speeds are just fine for my purposes, plus I never need to upload multi-hundred gigabyte files, which really does require special abilities, Good luck with pCloud and I’ll keep it in mind for the future.
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