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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
    5 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!
ArthurPix's avatar
ArthurPix
Collaborator | Level 10

TRO_Berlin Jon C.10 Ben S.31 UKD Here’s a great article by the truly legendary Adam Engst in TIDBITS, detailing possible solutions:

 

https://tidbits.com/2023/03/10/apples-file-provider-forces-mac-cloud-storage-changes/

 

I recommend everyone read it, even though some solutions, e.g. Maestro   no longer work on my own machine. BTW, I’ve been following the Synology-related solutions with great interest, as it may well come to this in a new age of Apple carelessness.

Ben S.31's avatar
Ben S.31
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

Thank you ArthurPix great article.

 

Seeing as I always use a separate partition for the system vs work, I may try migrating the Users folder to the work partition. That way the Dropbox/FileProvider defaults should work in a way that’s Apple sanctioned (in theory).

 

ArthurPix Do you have experience with moving the Users folder to another partition - any pros/cons/suggestions?

 

Cheers, Ben

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