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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 ..
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.
Rich
Super User II
Super User II
Sami k wrote:
"This version of macOS reguires dropbox folders to be stored here"
Another forum user gives a pretty good description of why this is required now. Simply put, it's a restriction from Apple; not Dropbox.
How to solve this? Need to install dropbox on a separate partition, same drive.
Why on earth would Dropbox try and force storage of over 100GB of data inside the user /Library directory? How to fix this? With symbolic links? Help! Any advice? Was working fine before stored in a custom location under the within the user folder but in a different directory.
- Rich
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.
This is a FALSE answer. Stop lying to people!!!
It was DropBox's choice to use this optional Apple library and that's the reason I'm moving away from DropBox after 10 years of use.
Hi, how does this solve the space constraint?
Can we use symlink for this destination to external drive?
If this can't be solved, will be forced to start using alternative like Resilio or Nextcloud.
