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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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humanoid
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

You can install the entire Mac OS on an external SSD drive.  Why not do that and then run apps, like Dropbox, off of it too?  

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lozzarozza
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

This is an interesting idea.  Crap that this could actually be the only solution.  I have ran off external drives off and on over the years.  mainly when I am doing an upgrade of the OS and want to test the new OS and essential programs etc.  So in theory you could run the OS of the giant RAID drives, I mean this can have issues for laptop users who ever want to you know... be mobile.  But if you did the install of the OS on the external drive then you would have all that space "internal" as far as the OS is concerned and on the correct drive etc.  But not the best work around.  But for static machines maybe this would be okay.  Why do apple have to break something that is working so well for since it was getdropbox.com

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