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Disaster: 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-on...
psalcal
That’s excellent to hear. I’m sure with you as my SJW guide we will have tremendous success. 🤣
One problem with the “Woke mindset“ that I’m sure you’re aware of is the issue that drop your box has with simply not bothering to inform us. The woke mindset simply believes that we’re kind of lesser people and we don’t really deserve to be told or taken into account.
we see this on exhibit here with them not bothering to tell us in advance about their service screwing everybody over. And we further see this with them saying that this issue has been resolved.
I will hold off on expanding further on the other issue near and dear to my heart simply because I will use another post for that so we can hopefully include more people to see things.
Thank you for your support. 😂
That’s excellent to hear. I’m sure with you as my SJW guide we will have tremendous success. 🤣
One problem with the “Woke mindset“ that I’m sure you’re aware of is the issue that drop your box has with simply not bothering to inform us. The woke mindset simply believes that we’re kind of lesser people and we don’t really deserve to be told or taken into account.
we see this on exhibit here with them not bothering to tell us in advance about their service screwing everybody over. And we further see this with them saying that this issue has been resolved.
I will hold off on expanding further on the other issue near and dear to my heart simply because I will use another post for that so we can hopefully include more people to see things.
Thank you for your support. 😂
PLEASE keep doing that thing where you add that hilarious play on words parody of the Dropbox name. And please do it ad nauseam in EVERY meaningless post. I want to see how many times it takes for that to stop being hilarious. But so far, amazing job, because it appears to be the gift that keeps on giving.
Two conflated issues here:
1. The external drive support - Dropbox management aren't idiots. They realise this is a deal-breaker issue for a large part of their clientele. When they say they are working on it, I absolutely believe they are because if it's not sorted, I, like many others will drop them for another service or perhaps just use Synology Drive on my own NAS.
2. Your other concern and the constant overuse of the term 'woke' as a pejoritve - please make a new thread for that to avoid confusion. It will make your point more strongly. Then the 50 or so people you think will make a difference in this thread can choose to go over there and help you in your battle. (Which, in my opinion, if you really want to be heard on a social issue, hijacking a technical topic deep in the forums is not the way to go about it).
Hey Michael, I agree with you. It is rather silly. But it is much like I find what they do. Woke, silly, meaningless.
I guess it's better to poke fun at them that it is to just sit and cry over the fact that my once beloved service has degraded into nothingness. It is what I expect of woke companies of course.
I do appreciate you chiming in as I love keeping this going.
Let's be clear, being out in front of this problem and alerting all of their customers and doing their best to get ahead of things and fix them would have been so much better. Not marking this thread as solved would've been better still. It's disingenuous at best to mark this thread solved.
But hey, I do appreciate you keeping this alive. Thank you so much. I hope more join in and we can really raise awareness for what they did and maybe even dig into the reasons behind it. Of course for me, the main reason would be their woke practices. But I can't say for sure.
I'd absolutely love to give them the benefit of the doubt. But it's been how long now? They still are marking this thread solved. They still aren't giving any real updates. They still don't seem to even address my issues. They don't seem to give us any kind of reasonable update.
Frankly, I'd really rather be a paying customer. I hate that I had to find someplace else. But when they were not forthcoming with actual information about the issue and just kept kicking the can down the road, then I decided I would do my best to call attention to it. So far, I'm pleased with the results.
So I continue to do what I do. Makes sense to me. And I don't really care if anybody else agrees or not. I'm not really trying to change any minds. I'm just trying to continue to raise awareness. So thank you for helping.
Hi Michael,
Thank you for your thoughts. I appreciate them. A well reasoned response is certainly helpful.
As you might know if you look over this thread, I have been very active on both sides of this. And I will continue.
My first issue actually is the one you suggested I take elsewhere. I do appreciate your suggestion.
I have been more vocal from the beginning about the issue of them not being responsible towards us, their customers by the way they've handled this debacle regarding having to shift to our primary drives.
Both issues are important to me. I really don't like giving money to an organization that treat people the way they do and allows their managers to make decisions that have nothing to do with capability. I realize it is my decision and mine only to make regarding what I feel comfortable giving people money for. But in today's day and age when companies are espouse in their policies openly, and by that I mean regarding green energy and other such things, I also will maintain my right to espouse what I think is correct.
Thank you at least for being considerate and professional in your communication. This is something I have also tried hard to do. Your reference to my use of the word woke is not meant as a pejorative but more as a way of simply describing a way of doing business that I am not in favor of. But it's easier to describe it in one word which seems reasonably accurate, than to try to write a number of paragraphs to say the same thing.
Well for the most part I am not in favor of woke anything, I'm also not putting down those that are. If one wants to associate with that, that's fine. I don't think any less of them as a person.
I appreciate you giving me the opportunity to express more of the way I feel and the way I am intending to communicate.
