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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...
Because my Mac Mini only has 512GB, internally, and I don’t have the money to “just get” a 2TB Mac Mini, when this one works perfectly well. I am surprised that you would laugh about people who can’t “just” spend a couple thousand bucks on a whim, to solve an issue that can be solved with a $200 external SSD. Wish I had your deep pockets.
But let’s just keep the personal comments at bay and try to focus on the issue at hand, again: an official Db solution to Apple’s Cloud API changes.
But let’s just keep the personal comments at bay and try to focus on the issue at hand, again: an official Db solution to Apple’s Cloud API changes.
Exactly. I'll probably be leaving this thread soon (that I personally started) because I really never got a confirmation on my solution (though it appears putting everything online only if you can swing that, is the answer). However, as I say, I'm just over Dropbox and their constant manipulation. I seriously just need extra storage and way to share something occasionally that is large. There are even "freebies" online that can do that now. In a way, I'm glad this has shown up and lit the fire for me to finally stop giving them tons of money when there are other obvious solutions for me.
- Jamesgangcc
“Exactly. I'll probably be leaving this thread soon (that I personally started)”
Hi James, I’m actually pretty confused… DropBox shows JonC as starting this thread. Maybe they merged two threads together?
I’m actually glad you have other solutions for your use case. I’ve been looking as well (for mine) but haven’t found one. OneDrive washed out: it barfs with certain files. You're lying to yourself. Google Drive will not fit the bill since it's much slower than Dropbox and it creates a lot of conflicts while syncing certain file types, which Dropbox never does. Syncing hundreds of GBs/TBs with G Drive doesn't cut it I've tried before trust me. If it did, I'd have moved my cloud files entirely with them of course. And as to other freebies you mentioned, I don't know what you're talking about but nothing (paid or free) comes as close as Dropbox.
It sucks balls but it's just the way it is.
If you have such low storage needs, why don't you simply use the lowest Dropbox Plan (2TB) with a 500GB/1TB or 2TB internal drive where you'll have everything in a single place? And keep an external SSD of equal size (eg. SanDisk v2 500GB-1TB-2TB or 4TB and soon 8TB) on your keyring (they're very small and light) to keep a TimeMachine backup of your entire system at any given time too? That's really the best of all worlds (Local SSD + Dropbox + TimeMachine) I've been using for years.
My only problem is that Dropbox doesn't allow enough storage space beyond 3TB (+1 as option) as Pro plan. But since you really have such low storage needs as it seems, this system is ideal for you, no limitations for you. Ideally Dropbox would also offer a 1TB plan but apparently they're too dumb to let people choose how much TB everyone wants, and they force everyone to go for 2TB (+1 option) or 3TB (+1 option) only plans. This is beyond my understanding, no other company acts like this with such lack of flexibility and common sense.
millifoo Actually, I believe you're right about the original thread. I forgot that I actually joined the thread vs getting a lot of answers to my question. Have a great day. I hope Dropbox realizes there are lot of annoyed people and at least fix this problem. I don't think they can go back to the olden days though when it was very simple to share, delete, save and move. 🙂
shinbeth Thanks for the insight. I despise Google so that's good to know; maybe OneDrive (I've tried it and it makes me crazy), or I'll add more to the Apple iCloud. What I meant by freebies wasn't a cloud but the services that allow one-off shares when you occasionally need one. As I say, I only need to occasionally share. It's mostly about storage as a redundancy to Externals.
shinbeth That's what I've been doing. Re; the 2TB. Just feel like Dropbox has become so unfriendly and unwieldy. And I don't know if I need to pay them over $120 a year for storage. However, what I planned on doing is using Dropbox for a lot of old VCR iMovie captures directly to online only since I have so much space left on it. So, this whole conversation has reminded me on how much Dropbox annoys me (like I say, when I want to just simply share something) and I'm looking into other solutions.
