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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 with everything you said—especially the parts about what happens if your external drive gets disconnected. As you say, it’s no big deal, and having all my Dropbox folders DOWNLOADED and PHYSICALLY PRESENT on my massive external RAID gives me far more security than having my folders only in the cloud (which would have to be the case if I were forced to put my folders on my internal drive) and inaccessible in the event that my internet connection goes down!
for anyone who wants to know about the external drives there's this little gem of a page: https://help.dropbox.com/installs/macos-support-for-expected-changes
That's a nightmare, no more logic and Final Cut synched over cloud services, seems like Mac is trying to kill its pro user base.
Did you try it? If so, what do you feel is the downside here?
Cheers
I think it's either kill off it's user base under the guise of "security and protection" or get us to stump up insane amounts of money for internal storage.
Juts look at Apple's range of products. They've never been more complicated. I've been an Apple user for close to 30 years and it's never been as insane as this.
I'm not sure if this is just an Apple issue or a Dropbox and Apple issue or what but it's never been harder running a business than now, with WFH, Data security, storage, computer types, spiralling taxes...
I'm actually fine with Apple's new computer types — especially the Mac Mini M2 Pro, which I'm thinking of buying for my wife—but the advantages offered by this new Mac, and by my Mac M1 Studio Ultra, all go away if I have to spend thousands of dollars for internal storage. I've been super happy with my OWC 2T ultrafast Thunderblade, but I bought this explicitly to house my Dropbox and OneDrive folders. When OneDrive deprecated external storage I thought, well, that's Microsoft —and it appears that OneDrive also corrupted ALL MY PDF FILES 😤--but at least I still have Dropbox! So I proceeded to migrate all my OneDrive folders to my Synology NAS, and upgraded my Dropbox account.
Now that Dropbox wants to deprecate external storage as well, I've decided to find an all-around better cloud storage service. There are plenty out there and I've read some good words about Sync, both here and in online reviews. But before I go through all the mishegaas of switching all my devices (seven at last count) from one service to another, I need to know if Sync — or any cloud storage service, for that matter—has actually committed in public to supporting external drives.
Does anyone know of such a chimera, or am I crazy just to hope one exists?
