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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
    1 year 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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camner
Helpful | Level 7
2 years ago

I am a small user in comparison to most of you on this thread (only 1.4 TB), but I moved to Sync.com and I haven't looked back. It may not be quite as full featured as dropbox, but it was easy to set up and has worked flawlessly from the beginning. I'm glad, for the sake of the really large users, that dropbox is going to try to fix this, but I don't intend to move back no matter what dropbox does.  I have a couple of reasons for this. First, the way dropbox handled this whole affair just reeks, and they've lost my trust. Second of all, from what I've read, the workarounds that others have implemented (OneDrive, for example) seem to be more than a little bit of a kludge, and I don't need that.

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UKD
Experienced | Level 12
2 years ago
camner when did you leave? Only asking out of curiosity. And I think you’ll find there’s quite a few of us who agree with you about this whole debacle.

And I agree that sync is less featured but I kinda feel that’s the point. Simple, streamlined and does exactly what it says on the tin. No frills, no fuss and no ‘features’ that users use, not that I know of anyway.

That’s a thought. How many people use Paper, Sign or Capture or any of the other ‘features’?

I only use Send. I find that excellent in fact. I think they did a good job on that but I don’t use the rest. In fact I only just installed capture for a call I have to record next week, and if it wasn’t for that I would never have used it.

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