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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 get your point, thanks for the detailed explanation. The fact that Dropbox is unable to meet Apple's specs speaks volume about the rigidity of both organizations. Tech companies are supposed to be agile and flexible. Except when they're in a position of monopoly like Apple and Dropbox. Which seems to be the case since 10 years ago, and that's why they struggle to be most efficient to deal with this kind of user issues. I guess the tech bubble burst didn't help either and probably a lot of product dev got fired and this issue became the least of their concern. And here we are now, in total shambles.
That said, and I agree it's a slightly different topic, but they should increase the size limit too asap. 3TB is way too small nowadays I think you'll agree to this. Especially since like I said Google Drive + competition offer 10-30TB. That would solve my issue, not yours though, I get that. Hopefully both our issues will be solved. Fingers crossed.
UKD Except that Drobox isn't a monopoly.
This guinea pig has now switched all Dropbox folders over to Sync.com, taken Drop-the-box off my Mac, and so far it's working beautifully on my Mac, and a bit less so on my iPhone and iPad, where the iOS apps are a bit slower at updating all my folders. This is to be expected, since the Mac files are all offline as well, and the iDevice apps are strictly online-only. So for the moment I'm doing all my email on my computer, but I'm hoping that by tomorrow, the apps will be through theurbprocessing things and up-to-date.
