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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-...
Umm isn't the simple solution to use nas enclosures with Dropbox installed and connect directly to them with ethernet?
You can easily attach several macs at each location to the nas drive, which has the benefit of drive redundancy.
You can easily attach several macs at each location to the nas drive, which has the benefit of drive redundancy.
Smirker that would be great. Can you point us to the NAS that supports doing this? I'm not aware of one. My experience with sharing the Dropbox folder (using Windows/SMB sharing from a PC, described in a previous comment) was not good.
ms25 Synology NAS has a package called Cloud Sync, and I imagine many other NAS systems have similar options. The problem is that this is just a dumb pipe that syncs all files. Because of this you would lose key features, such as individual user access/privileges, the ability to determine which files sync locally vs being available in the cloud, easy right-click file sharing with external users, etc.
beenyweenies that's kinda true but also not true. Synology Drive is now much better than it used to be but the downside is that it takes a large amount of effort to set it up with individuals and individuals access points etc etc. I use it for my company archive now of old files and to make my life easier I've just given my guys access to everything. Saves me a lot of headaches. You can do individual syncing of folders and files locally now but again it's much more difficult that say Dropbox is.
My IT guys installed Dropbox on our Synology NAS - it's got 5 bays so we have our entire 6 TB Dropbox accessible locally.
I think they use the Cloudsync app on the Synology NAS
Smirker I'd be interested to know what they did because Dropbox doesn't make an actual app for Synology. They do however run a cloud sync on the NAS whereby you can sync your dropbox files to the synology NAS. I do that as a permanent localised backup of my files so you could technically do that. Not sure how people can connect in when not on the local network. I'd have to figure that out.
Just to add it gets more complicated when you have much larger files. My Dropbox was nearly 50TB at one stage!
