Dropbox removing external disk support for Mac users

Did you try it? If so, what do you feel is the downside here? 

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I've had to downgrade my Dropbox from the Beta because apparently it was stuck. So just gotta keep waiting for them to sort their sh*t out I guess.

That doing Dropbox sync via Synology is a super long winded way of doing it. Not that it's wrong but more the fact as to why the hell should you have to do that.

I already sync my Dropbox with a Synology NAS so I have a local backup but I don't want all my team to either VPN in to the NAS or do something like that with the Synology app.

Everything about this change is so disappointing. From the lack of communication with us, the paying customer, the lack of detail of what's happening too. Surely somebody must've looked at who their customers are and gone, hey, you know, this is quite a big change, maybe we should speak to the industry and see what they say. It seems the level of arrogance is astounding.

Got it, thanks. Makes sense. Maybe arrogance could also be "not having their **bleep** together". But either way. Yeah, it's been almost a month and not having an official statement with something specific from dbox_ is a super concern, as this is a deal breaker for many of their users. 

fjazzfjazz a month? More like it took them well over 6 months to address that there was going to be a change, and then 6 months to say that the change is delayed, to then say it's coming late November, to then radio silence until this year, saying February if I'm not mistaken and now nothing, except for what people like us have extracted from them, to say if I'm not wrong, May now. I'm pretty sure if you looked up how many press releases / announcements they've made about this "upgrade" I think you'll find there's a total of 3, maybe 4 tops.

The whole thing has been a debacle, yet they keep on pumping out those crappy new features that nobody asked for. If they took the resources they used doing that and put it in to updating their core software then maybe, just maybe, we'd all be happier than we currently are.

UKD very well said indeed. I see now why you're ranked level 9!

Bluebicycle This is ingenious and I have just enough Synology chops to MAYBE make it happen between my NAS and my external drive. But OMG the things that could go wrong! I don't have enough Synology chops to be confident that I'll always get it right, and I don't have as much faith in my knowledge of Cloud Sync as I do in handling Dropbox directly.

Bottom Line: I simply can't entrust my data to this solution. It would be much easier to switch cloud services, if only I could find one that I trust to keep supporting external drives.

What!?  I don't know how I didn't hear about this disaster until now! After using Dropbox for nearly two decades on external drives with no issues, THIS makes Dropbox entirely useless for me. Apple doesn't even MAKE internal hard drives big enough to support this change.

PLEASE Dropbox find a solution to this ASAP. If not, it's goodbye.

Bookpast sadly the response you will get from @Dropbox will be "we have smart sync" so you don't need that much space. Like most of us we're scrambling to find a better solution and one that will support external drives. Dropbox just blames Apple for all of this and whilst I can't say that Apple is blameless in this whole scenario I'm sure it can't be all their fault.

But then again who knows. Nobody tells us anything and they're not going to admit their own inabilities are they!

Bookpast Amen. And you have raised a concern that I didn't even think about — what happens when your Dropbox needs exceed the amount of internal storage that it's possible to buy? Smart Sync is all well and good for unimportant stuff, but I NEVER want my data to be accessible ONLY when I have a decent internet connection.