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MacOS Users Severely Punished?
Hello- I'm a very long time DropBox supporter with both family plans and business plans for my small business.
Want to double check what I'm finding for Mac Users. The following document outlin...
billgdbx
Dropbox Engineer
Dropbox EngineerWe hear what you're saying and continue to work on improvements for the File Provider implementation. Right now our work is mostly focused on improving scalability (getting sync to go faster and not run into issues at really high file counts), but we are also looking at how to best support external drives and a plethora of other improvements. We know the situation there is not great, but options that do not rely on FP supporting external drives have their own issues (like, doubling the amount of storage used because you're doing a secondary sync from the FP domain to/from the external drive; no ability to support download-on-demand; having to run a second sync engine on your CPU). FedericoCampanale you mentioned "a solution"--is there a specific issue you're looking for an update on?
Thanks for replying.
Yes, by "Solution" I mean a way to choose where we're keeping our files offline.
It works now, as i didn't update DB.
And I don't really agree with all the issues you're mentioning related to external drive.
If it's always attached, then, no issues. Please leave us the choice. That'd be the optimal solution.
-> Easy/all done by DB for people who can't manage their files and have no ideas where things are in their disks (and are happy so)
-> Advanced way to choose how to and where to keep files (basically as it worked before your update/Apple restricted, for who ahve some experience with computers and know what they do. And would be happy to be left doing so.
Thanks,
Best and good luck with the work. It's reaaaally expected.
Federico
