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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!
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shinbeth
Experienced | Level 13
3 years ago

To be honest I'm well aware that Dropbox is probably not meeting all the security specs that it should, I'm also very annoyed that they don't provide the choice to pick storage servers in Europe because I don't trust the Americans at all 🙂 But I don't really care because I will never upload sensitive information in my Dropbox folder, so the NSA can screen all they want and the hackers can inject and leak anything they want, I won't be bothered, but all I want is larger storage plans haha.

 

So I found my ideal solution until then. I'm keeping Dropbox 3 (+1) TB Pro plan that's the Dropbox folder with 4TB max. And I'm having the remaining 4-6TB with sync.com Pro plan, in the Sync.com folder (located on my hard drive for now, until I upgrade next MacBook Pro) with 4-6TB. That's 8-10TB total.

 

When Dropbox comes up with larger data plans, I will transfer the 4-6TB back into Dropbox. Until then, no more of my money other than the Pro plan to Dropbox. Your call Dropbox 🙂 If you don't want to make more money, you loss!

 

Note: if Apple doesn't release more than 8TB in the next MBP M3, I'll put some of it on an external drive like the SanDisk 4TB. So yeah Dropbox, I agree with this thread, you better work out this external storage sync issue asap for Apple users!

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ArthurPix
Collaborator | Level 10
3 years ago

shinbeth Sync isn't a US company. The company and its servers are in Canada, making it ideal for anyone worried about the NSA, and its encryption is TNO (Trust No One, in the words of Steve Gibson), true end-to-end, so your data is safe as can be with them. If you actually had an online storage provider in Europe, it would probably be MORE (not less) susceptible to intrusion by national intelligence authorities. 

 

P.S, Soon it seems Drobox too will be true end-to-end encrypted as well.

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