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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!
Jamesgangcc's avatar
Jamesgangcc
Collaborator | Level 9
3 years ago

Exactly. I'll probably be leaving this thread soon (that I personally started) because I really never got a confirmation on my solution (though it appears putting everything online only if you can swing that, is the answer). However, as I say, I'm just over Dropbox and their constant manipulation. I seriously just need extra storage and way to share something occasionally that is large. There are even "freebies" online that can do that now. In a way, I'm glad this has shown up and lit the fire for me to finally stop giving them tons of money when there are other obvious solutions for me. 

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millifoo
Helpful | Level 7
3 years ago
Jamesgangcc

“Exactly. I'll probably be leaving this thread soon (that I personally started)”

Hi James, I’m actually pretty confused… DropBox shows JonC as starting this thread. Maybe they merged two threads together?

I’m actually glad you have other solutions for your use case. I’ve been looking as well (for mine) but haven’t found one. OneDrive washed out: it barfs with certain files.
  • Jamesgangcc's avatar
    Jamesgangcc
    Collaborator | Level 9
    3 years ago

    millifoo  Actually, I believe you're right about the original thread. I forgot that I actually joined the thread vs getting a lot of answers to my question. Have a great day. I hope Dropbox realizes there are lot of annoyed people and at least fix this problem. I don't think they can go back to the olden days though when it was very simple to share, delete, save and move. 🙂 

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