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keus
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Using External Drive as the location for Dropbox

Hello

Just writing to submit some feedback here that removing the ability for Dropbox to be synced via an external drive is a terrible business move. Completely disrupts user's workflow, and is giving me great pause for continuing to use Dropbox at all.

Thanks
A long time user

desktop
Mac
Setting up the apps
sync

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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
    2 years ago

    I assume you are a Mac user? 

     

    You need to vent at Apple as its their API change which is causing this - it isnt a Dropbox business decision. 

    • paul20's avatar
      paul20
      Helpful | Level 6
      2 years ago

      Mark Does this mean this will work on a Windows PC?

       

      I expect to migrate off of Dropbox due to their poor handling of the FileProvider API, and have been trying to figure out how I'm going to get all my files.

      • Rich's avatar
        Rich
        Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
        2 years ago
        paul20 wrote:

        Does this mean this will work on a Windows PC?

        As far as I know there has been no change to that on Windows. It's only on the Mac said, and due to Apple's FileProvider API as Mark has stated.

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