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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!
psalcal's avatar
psalcal
Collaborator | Level 10
3 years ago
Dude stop with the “woke”‘political crap. OMG you are just too much. The whole idea of “woke” is so completely out of context and frankly ignorant. Stop making every **bleep** thing political.

Nobody gives a flying crap about your politics. NOBODY CARES.
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jmeredi2
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago
Sync.con still claiming 40Mbps max with no plans to upgrade speed. So for users uploading terabytes of data daily, this is almost as bad as Dropbox not allowing for external drives.
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    TheMainOne
    Collaborator | Level 9
    3 years ago

    jmeredi2 yes I think for especially heavy uploaded in downloaders, it is a dealbreaker. 

     

    I did get an email from sync.com stating that they are turning up the speed. I'm just reporting what they said. Frankly they did not reference what the speed will be now. So they may have turned it up but only ever so slightly. 

     

    In my opinion it is too slow for huge amounts of data. Especially if it has to be done every day or at least very often. 

     

    I can live with this just fine. And the price for a business pro deal with them with unlimited storage is still so spectacular for me I'm shaking my head over it. It is extremely effective. But again, I don't have to upload or download terabytes all the time. 

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