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Jon C.10
2 years agoCollaborator | Level 8
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...
- 4 months agoHi 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!
millifoo
Helpful | Level 7
"Why spend more money if you don't have to? Oh, right. The American way. The whole point of this cloud business is so you DON"T have to buy a huge internal, right?"
That's one reason, yes. But no the only one:
We use cloud sync with our external huge drives to allow collaboration with audio/video editing. The workflow for lots of media houses with people who collaborate in multiple locations requires files be local (speed of editing and playback), and sync through the cloud not only facilitates that, it also backs up all the files in case of catastrophe.
Jamesgangcc
2 years agoCollaborator | Level 9
Thanks, but that doesn't answer my question. No matter, I'm halfway through moving the files to an external for now, and will find another cloud solution. My monthly gets charged on the 28th. I'll use the $130/yr somewhere else. It appears, for my needs, the Googly will be about $40/yr. I'll have canceled by then. I use it rarely, as I say, more for storage, and whenever I go on to "just simply" share a file or folder, it's a labryinth of download, compile, move, upload, save, try and share, share only this way, share if they have an account... don't even try to find where "delete" is hidden. I don't need to be paying for all the bells and whistles I have to navigate through to save and file in the cloud or send to someone maybe 5 times a year. Enough. They can continue upgrading and changing and selling every 90 days to others.
I assume this is a solution.
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