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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!
shinbeth's avatar
shinbeth
Experienced | Level 13
3 years ago

So it turns out https://www.dropbox.com/backup/all shows the sync status and the tick there instead, I'm cool with that.

 

Pretty useful feature indeed Dropbox to be able to sync external drives.

 

Please don't change this feature on Mac please 🙂 the people here are right and I fully support them.

DissatisfiedUser99's avatar
DissatisfiedUser99
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

So I have 2T of storage on Dropbox and only 200G on the iCloud Drive.  Moving all my Dropbox data to the iCloud Drive will exceed the 200G capacity.  Then I guess I get to buy more storage from Apple.  Thanks a lot Apple.  A bigger problem is that this Apple change may bankrupt Dropbox and then I will have no offsite storage at all.  I have an old Windows 10 computer and I might be able to put all the Dropbox files on it and share them on my network.  Don't know if this will work but I will try.  I have used Dropbox over a decade and love it.  I never have to worry if I am working on the most current version of a file on multiple computers.

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