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Jon C.10
Collaborator | Level 8
3 years ago
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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-...
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  • BenDBX's avatar
    BenDBX
    2 years ago
    Hi 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!
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beenyweenies
Helpful | Level 7
3 years ago

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.

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Smirker
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

We have our entire 6TB Dropbox synced on a 5 bay NAS - this is all our design files and videos.  The only sensitive files we don't want everyone to share are stored elsewhere and they're all documents so take up minimal space.

  • ArthurPix's avatar
    ArthurPix
    Collaborator | Level 10
    3 years ago

    Smirker 

    I have a similar connection. Unfortunately Sync.com doesn’t have this Synology feature, but, since they support external drives, I don’t need this. It would, however, be nice as a backup. I have spoken to them about this and they replied they are considering it, which is a nice way of saying “sorry.”  UKD 

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