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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-...
I agree, this is an absolute disaster. I also raised this question with the Dropbox support today and they told me that even existing setups with external hard drives will be migrated to the internal drive by May 2023 at the latest. This will be a show stopper for our business.
We are considering setting up an emergency backup solution based on an old fashioned local file server. However, I have learned that Apple has also removed AFP support and now forces people to use Apple's extremely buggy SMB implementation, that causes many issues especially with Adobe software and messes up access privileges all the time.
What a mess. We are in 2023, have had a working cloud solution for years, and now, we are back in the 90's.
The known issue introduced in macOS 12.3 and regarding access to online-only files from 3rd party apps, is a disadvantage, but it can be eluded if you have a large external drive and make all the data needed available offline.
Really, I don't know what to say. This also goes to Apple who thinks it needs to lock down Macs just like their iPads. iPads can hardly be used for productive purposes because of the massive limitations in iPad OS. Now, it seems Apple tries to do the same to MacOS. These are no good prospects. Not at all.
I am very curious what solution dropbox will offer. With over 300+ TB data on dropbox, it's quite important feature for us.
I am in the middle of migrating a client off a server and onto dropbox with over 18TB files and they're adamant it will be fine on external drive? Did anything change for you or is it all still working?
- It will look like it works but it won’t sync. I tried recently regrettably.. You’ll end up seeing your 18tb folder structure with zero bytes.
So dropbox support said that we didn't HAVE to migrate to Apple File Provider and so we could stay on a version that does work? I actually have dropbox on external drive and it is still working as per normal. Have you had issues with using yours as stands or did you try to update dropbox and migrate? I am on Monterey.
