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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-...
TRO_Berlin I don't know if you can run a server like that with the "new" Dropbox. There is so little information provided by Dropbox that you really are just flipping a coin and see which side comes up with the information do we have.
What we do know is that as of right now the new Dropbox will require each machine to move the location of their Dropbox to an internal drive. That means that if you run a server then that server will need to have physical hard drives. If each member of your team then requires access to 4-5TB each locally then that server will need all the files downloaded. That in turn leaves you with a dilemma, why have Dropbox? You may as well have a local server with physical hard drives with all the data on it and then everyone connect to those hard drives. Yes there's a performance issue because of the network but then that becomes an internal IT issue etc etc.
I don't think Dropbox have thought this through but most of us have kind of agreed they have turned this whole situation in to pile of dog****. each of us have had to look at our own situation individually and work out what is best for us. Me, I'm moving everything off from Dropbox and am moving it to SYNC dot COM.
Other issues come in to play like speed of upload and download, accessibility, durability etc etc. That is an individual choice and something you will have to work out I'm afraid. I personally don't mind SYNC dot COM. It's slower than Dropbox on the upload and download and I am still uploading all the data and so far have only managed to get about 3TB of data up out of about 9TB overall that I will need on there. This has taken several weeks so it is from my side very very slow.
Good luck.
UKD Well said. As I’ve mentioned before, as an “average” power user who needs Dropbox mainly for making my raw still photo files available everywhere without prohibitive expenses from adobe, SYNC dot COM is plenty fast enough. I’ve been running it for three or more months now, and, apart from a problem with a buggy new release of the desktop app. Sync has operated as flawlessly as Dropbox did for me, with their lower speeds probably accounted for by the end-to-end encryption that makes me feel so secure.
As always YMMV depending upon your uses, and if those uses include by Video files, you may want to consider pCloud.
Alas, the one leg up that DropBox will probably a,ways enjoy is the enormous and active user community that’s active on this forum,
