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Forum Discussion
Backup
You guys at Dropbox are doing everything to make me (and many others) quit Dropbox. First, you removed the possibility of resolvig symlink. Now you are not allowing to see the backup of an external d...
It’s a simple issue. I (and many others) have terabytes of pictures but laptop drives are, usually, at most 1 tb. Once I used to have all the pictures in external drive and symlinked in the macook Dropbox folder. I could simply access them fro mac and phone. The you removed the option but tou introduced the backup of external drive. Thar worked, because once again we could access the backup of the external drive with pictures as a regular folder on dropbox. Now it’s forbidden. How do you think we could manage the issue if not moving to other cloud server?
Hannah
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHey dversari, sorry to jump in here.
We do appreciate your feedback about the syncing an external drive and the external drive backup feature.
However, can you clarify what you mean by "forbidden"? Are you not able to see your external drive backup in your Dropbox?
Does it not appear in your backups page?
Hannah, are Backups available from Finder like they have been since "backing up to Dropbox" first came out a couple years ago?
- Hannah
I can only see one of my three (3) previously-configured-to-back-up to Macintosh HD > Users > Home > Dropbox computers still showing the Apple logo and (hopefully still) backing up in this manner:
The other two (2) computers' backups seemed to turn into static folders:
I do not want to use `Dropbox Backup (Beta)` to back up files like this:
- I want the files from each computer to back up and sync in real-time to each individual computer's folder on Macintosh HD > Users > Home > Dropbox,
- So that I can search for and access these folders from any of my computers' Finder windows (and big emphasis on being able to search these directories natively in Finder, as it's a critical requirement to have 1 singular place that can you know can search all remote servers, connected external drives, and local folders & files, etc.)
Questions:
- How do I restore this functionality to my three (3) previously-configured-to-back-up to Macintosh HD > Users > Home > Dropbox computers?
- How do I set this up for my new (and 4th) computer, which runs on M3 Max?
Thank you
