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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!
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psalcal
Collaborator | Level 10

shinbeth of the cloud storage providers, I have worked professionally with Box, Dropbox, and Google Drive so far.  I even tried to see if iCloud was workable (no).  For my money Dropbox is the best fit.  Do you have something you like better you could recommend?  

I'm a little pissed at them right now because the latest update has stopped my folders from syncing (the update which forced the internal drive storage).  But still.. they are the best I've found.  

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shinbeth
Experienced | Level 13
2 years ago

psalcal 

 

I've tried 8 different cloud services including those you mentioned, and Dropbox both personally, professionally and even as part of working for larger companies that were using Dropbox too.

Nothing comes as good as Dropbox in terms of usability, that's a fact. So we have to stick to it.

But I wish they could finally upgrade their product it's been a while since it's been the same I see no new features and upgrades.

Ideally yes it should support any kind of external sync. It should offer more space. So let's keep pushing them into the right direction and they will finally become the ideal cloud service we all wish they were.

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