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Sami k's avatar
Sami k
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

Can't put the folder on an external drive on MacOS

  I chose dropbox just because it gets on an external disk, can't anymore? I'm totally frustrated, last year 3 months didn't work at all for MacOs ..
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    3 years ago
    BJRo wrote:

    Why on earth would Dropbox try and force storage of over 100GB of data inside the user /Library directory?

    This isn't Dropbox's doing; it's a new restriction put in place by Apple. Changing the location of your Dropbox folder is no longer supported by macOS.

     

DenniF1's avatar
DenniF1
Explorer | Level 4

Just updated my macos to 12.5 for security reasons and it moved my main dropbox folder to my internal hard drive and won't allow me to keep it on my external drive. This is ridiculous!  I don't have the space internally!  This has be to fixed

esf's avatar
esf
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

I absolutely agree this needs to be fixed. I am so disappointed with Apple, and this is a simple cheap-*ss ploy to force users to buy overpriced mac hardware. It is about as insulting as you can get. I love the mac only because I grew up on BSD, all of the new fancy bloatware widgets and now this insult makes me question why I buy their expensive and overpriced hardware.  I know enough about OS design to know there is no technical reason why cloud storage can't be placed on external drives. What utter rubbish.

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