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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!
jomarie777's avatar
jomarie777
New member | Level 2

Could you kindly provide a link with information on how to make One Drive work as an alternative? Would love to find an alternative service but unable to find anything as of yet

BringBackExternalStorage's avatar
BringBackExternalStorage
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Dropbox, you need to do better than this.  It's a failure on your part not to have communicated this better.  It will cost your customers time, money, and energy to salvage their workflows.  Rolling out an update like this should have been at least a 90 day progression, NOT a next time you restart all your frickin' files will either be offline or crash your 1TB OS HD.  COME ON DB! Make this right and get a workaround.

  • The Dark Knight's avatar
    The Dark Knight
    Helpful | Level 6
    2 years ago

    It's absolutely audacious that Dropbox are still sending out these emails without bothering to tell people where they'll be forced to store this data!

     

     

    • andy1044's avatar
      andy1044
      Explorer | Level 4
      2 years ago

      If no fix for this comes from either Dropbox or Apple, using Mountain Duck seems like a viable work around for the time being if you're stuck using Dropbox. Mountain Duck allows you to mount your Dropbox folder as a virtual drive and you can select files to be downloaded for offline access in a location of your choice e.g. an external drive. It also allows you to generate share links directly from the Finder as you could with the Dropbox integration, though it doesn't look like Transfer links are supported.

       

      It's not the most elegant or feature rich solution, and links to files that were previously in your Dropbox folder would probably need to be repaired, but it would allow you to keep your Dropbox folder on an external drive without taking drastic measures like moving your home folder.

      • Jgcamil's avatar
        Jgcamil
        Helpful | Level 6
        2 years ago

        CloudMounter is another similar option. Currently I have it installed alongside the desktop app. So far I havent experienced the change.

        I have the cloudmounter to access the ssd files when Im no carrying it.

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