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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!
shinbeth's avatar
shinbeth
Experienced | Level 13

Bluebiycle 

 

"Even a 4TB internal Volume will not work, for many of us as we need much more headroom."

 

Glad to see I'm not the only one using 16TB SSD. Dropbox would fix the situation by simply offering more storage space so that we can all use large SSDs (internal in my case). But it seems that Dropbox in 2023 still lags 10 years behind in terms of what their customers need. 3/4TB hard limits are ridiculously low plans for any serious professional out there.

Bluebiycle's avatar
Bluebiycle
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

I don't think that's issue at all we have 30PetaBytes available to us! This is one of, where it get's stored.  Of all the cloud syncing services Dropbox is really the best out there for ease of use and reliability. I can't really fault it.  We are syncing Terabytes of stuff continually. Apple have changed their frameworks, they no doubt have good reason, as they are rightly obsessed with security. Dropbox will hopefully respond with a solution soon.

 

  • shinbeth's avatar
    shinbeth
    Experienced | Level 13
    2 years ago

    Bluebiycle 

     

    'Hopefully', 'soon' doesn't cut it for a company as mighty as Dropbox. Be sure of your update or don't release it.

    And no one faulted Dropbox sync otherwise, that's not the point of this thread.

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