Dropbox removing external disk support for Mac users

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. 

psalcal  Now it seems to be you making everything about politics and being a snowflake. Take your own goddamn medicine and stop referencing this. This is what you said, stop making everything about politics. OK, stop making everything about politics. 

For me, I make one single thing about politics and you have a hissy fit. Karen much? 

And the only reason I make it is because they did it. I won't tolerate it. I won't do business with companies like that. I was looking for an excuse to get out and then here comes this nonsense about having to put everything on the primary drive. 

I have two reasons why I stopped being a paying customer. I have said it clearly. Now stop bringing attention to it unless you want me to thank you for helping let everyone know what a woke piece of garbage this company really is. 

Actually, please just keep responding. I love that you are keeping this topic alive for me. I will keep responding every time you do. Let's make sure everybody knows the nonsense that this company engages in. 

Thank you for keeping this alive.

psalcal 

You do. You seem to care. And that's all that matters to me. 

I am so grateful to find somebody willing to help keep the "woke" nonsense alive. 

Dropbox has a hiring manager who publicly stated that she would pass over white people to hire black people regardless of qualifications. Not that it matters, but this woman is white. 

Being that I am from a mixed family, this does not sit well with us at all. Nor with a great many others that also have issues with this. And yes I know it's true because dropbox support told me so. Unfortunately, they refused to answer me in any other way.

So thank you very much for the kind person that continues to keep this alive. I absolutely adore making sure that everyone knows of this issue.

In addition to this nonsense - we find that drop your box can't even figure out how to get this off the main drive. This can clearly be done as other companies are doing it. So it shows me that they don't really care. 

Thank you psalcal for your diligence in helping me keep this alive. I think it's only appropriate that the world understand what's really happened here. I believe my story is appropriate and should be part of this history. And I love the opportunity to keep talking about it. 

Even if psalcal and I are the only ones interested, that's good enough as somebody will stumble across this and realize what's really happening here.

Thank you again for your diligence. I really appreciate it.

We use the dropbox company wide in a similar manner - works flawlessly.

A shame to see Dropbox not offering a solution here.

spencerkm1 did you find out whether it's been resolved or not? I've not yet upgraded from OS 12.6 because of this.

iagdotme 

If by resolved you mean that they have decided to do what's right and fix this, then no it's not. It looks like they have decided to stick their thumb in all of their customers eyes. 

If by resolved you mean has the question been resolved, then technically yes. They marked it resolved. But it is far from it and numerous customers have complained that they are arbitrarily and unilaterally marking things solved that are in no way solved. 

Welcome to drop your box. They have clearly dropped their box and can't find it anything without it. I think we need to get them a clap on. That way once they've fallen and can't get up they can at least clap on the light so they can find their way out of there. 

Yeah, we run a weekly public radio show to over 500 stations and we have more than 4TB of audio that needs to be readily accessed by our reporters and engineers, at a moment's notice. And this is a small (under 50 people) operation compared to other media companies that require way more space in other to professionally work with media, especially since 2020. Since people in the team wont be able to have internal drives with 4TB+ of data storage, it means that if we can't use external drives, this WILL BE the END of Dropbox for a lot of these professional media companies. 

If you unplug your external drive, or it glitches otherwise (which can easily be resolved by 1. not having your Dropbox start automatically upon log in 2. not more your computer after the drive and dropbox are turned on) it will simply re-index all files. It takes a few hours for 4TB to re index, it is no big deal and does not cause mass deletion of files. In the unlike event it does, any admin can, with 4 clicks and a filtered search can restore these files in 10 minutes. 

And yes, I am also trying to reach out to apple, but as you know, there is not much hope they aren't doing this intentionally, and very little hope they will change their ways. In the other hand, Dropbox might be able to address this issue creatively. 

 dbox_ , please let us know what's your contingency plan, or we will need to look for another solution. 

Thanks 

yeah I don't think dbox_ gives a flying f*** about you or companies like you. I've been bleating at them for nearly 18 months about how incompetent they are and what's our options and their answer is always the same "Kindly note, if you have a large amount of files on your account you can opt to use Selective Sync so they don't take up space on your hard drive, and only utilize space on Dropbox". 

Apple are looking out for themselves and what people to upgrade to the most expensive internal hard drives on the planet. Externals will no longer work with Dropbox so we are now all stuck with either looking elsewhere and with someone who does work with external drives (anyone know who?) or stump up huge amounts of cash to Apple. Looks like someone isn't working in their own self interest are they???🤔

The problem is who is any good. Sharepoint to me is a big no no. Box is ok but very slow. Google Drive is very expensive and also very irritating with the constant reverting to master account and having them approve access all the time.

Anyone got any recommendations?