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Jon C.10's avatar
Jon C.10
Collaborator | Level 8
2 years ago

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...
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  • BenDBX's avatar
    BenDBX
    4 months 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!
UKD's avatar
UKD
Experienced | Level 12

sorry but I can't help you with that. I'm moving all my files away from Dropbox because of this but I hold TBs of files and folders.

Maybe someone else can help.

cvrasoan's avatar
cvrasoan
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Thanks UKD 

Any idea when a solution is coming from Dropbox

and which cloud service are you migrating your data

regards

 

  • UKD's avatar
    UKD
    Experienced | Level 12
    2 years ago

    cvrasoan nobody knows. Dropbox says one thing and then a month later extends the deadline. This is why a lot of us are bailing out. Incompetence at the highest level.

     

    Ru 1971 I did have a similar issue and I had quite a lot of folders synced, but as I've copied them over to sync.com and then de-synced them on my computer from the Dropbox account (I have left them on cloud for the moment as a backup temporality) then I noticed the icons started to re-appear. Now I am gonna shock you and tell you it's a known issue with Dropbox. Something to do with overloading of active icons. I can't remember the precise wording so don't flame me but it's something to with the integration of Dropbox and Finder. If I remember correctly I found it out with a long search.

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