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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...
shinbeth
I should have put a " 😉 " after "now stop and"...I am sorry if it offended you, truly, but it wasn't meant as an order, but as a friendly suggestion...should have known that all humor has left this discussion a while ago.
...and no, I am not a Db employee...just trying to be of service and relaying to the community what worked for me...I just did the same thing on my Mac Mini M1 file server, and pointed Dropbox at my external 2TB SSD that holds the entirety of my Dropbox, and after indexing the folder, all is well...but you obviously see me as the enemy here, so take it or leave it and keep being angry.
We have 45TB uploaded to Dropbox and utilize our main DB folder on an external RAID volume in our 2019 Mac Pro (32TB Pegasus R4i) - this change will have drastic effects for our company.
As a precaution, we have opted to sync all files to online-only until a solution is developed.
(BTW: We recently uploaded 20TB to the DB cloud. Upload took 3 days. However, the online-only sync took about 3 weeks to process completely. So CAUTION to those trying to sync TB's of data "off" their drives via the Online-Only process.
I have everything synced to online only, about 800 gb. I created an iMovie library just yesterday before reading all about this to save movies "to the cloud." I'm downloading everything in the Dropbox to a 2TB and I plan on ditching Dropbox. I have 1TB on OneDrive (though I hate their interface) and 200GB right now with Apple. I'm going to look into Googly and maybe use them vs. Dropbox. This is just the "last straw." I hated when they made changes a few years ago to where you needed a road map to "just simply" share or download something. I get the constant "upgrade," "check out the new way we've added tons of steps to do something simple," and "sync your synched sharing by sharing with your colleagues that you may not have but have to use" system. Yes or Okay? Done paying people to sit around in meetings coming up with ways to make things more difficult.
