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dominguez855
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5 months ago
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Unable to set the Dropbox storage to an external drive on Mac OS Sequoia

I am using a new Mac mini 4 and this is the first time I've not been able to have Dropbox use an external drive to store dropbox data. There is a pop-up above the (i) in the preferences for Sync that...
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    dominguez855
    5 months ago

    I don't know what File Provider is and I don't know why that was the default way to install Dropbox now on a Mac. In any case, the real culprit it seems is that Dropbox requires external drives to be formatted as APFS or HFS+. That would be great info to know. It's also weird that exFat is not supported like it used to be.

    Solution: reformat external drive to APFS.

dominguez855's avatar
dominguez855
New member | Level 2
5 months ago

I don't know what File Provider is and I don't know why that was the default way to install Dropbox now on a Mac. In any case, the real culprit it seems is that Dropbox requires external drives to be formatted as APFS or HFS+. That would be great info to know. It's also weird that exFat is not supported like it used to be.

Solution: reformat external drive to APFS.

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