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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...
We have been testing sync.com. I have about 1.5 TB of space on it now.
First the things I love… It is private. Really private. No nonsense like dropbox. Dropbox says they can read, give your content to trusted third parties and on and on. Not Sync.com. It is fully private.
The next thing I absolutely love is unlimited storage. Yes it really is true. Unlimited. We pay about $30 a month. Which is two seats at $15 a month each. Billed monthly, not yearly. And this gives us unlimited for both of us. It is a business plan and is exceptional because I want a lot of space.
Now the thing I don't love so much... It is rather slow. It is not as fast as dropbox. But it is fast enough. It took a couple of days to get the initial 1.5 TB online. But I don't have the fastest Internet either. That said, dropbox is faster. But this works plenty well for me
Buh bye dropbox and your woke nonsense.
Has anyone discredited using sym links with this new/upcoming change yet?
That's what I've doing for years and the system "sees" it as if it was all on the internal drive.
Michael C.121 yes that has been shown to not work.
WriterGuy-123 I do believe that solution will likely work, but that one doesn't seem like a common use case. Glad it could work for you.
TheMainOne thank you (though the "woke" comment.. LOL really dude?). Looks like I may give that a shot. I'm also going to evaluate how rock solid they are as a platform. I have had zero data loss on Dropbox.. that's huge for me.Dude - chill out, please! Not sure what's got you all riled up about Dropbox (or Disney, really), but paranoia is NOT a good look... No one cares what's in your Dropbox folders, except maybe people who want to sell you some crap. These days, if you really value total privacy, you've got to live off the grid. So cloud storage should NOT be your first option, right?
What’s wrong with the "woke” comment? He’s totally right, not only Dropbox is a sleazy bunch of Disney type wokes but they also sneak on you data (never felt safe on this front, why on earth would they screen your data lol same way as the GAFAM with the NSA and all that).
Hopefully Elon Musk will buy them back and clean them out from the inside Twitter style.
That said sync.com speed sucks and doesn’t work with my TBs. Lol 2 days for 1.5TB only that’s a deal breaker for me. Sadly no alternative to Dropbox ease of use and speed as of today.Good doggie! Submissive guys like you are the dawn of humanity lol
What a life with your wife that must be...
"you've got to live off the grid"
No critical thinking whatsoever, happy to be enslaved lol smth
psalcal Glad to see you liked my "woke" reference. And yes, really. I can't stand woke anything. Well let me put it differently, I really don't like to get involved with political or even quasi-political anything. But having "woke" thrown in my face is more than I can take. It's like a "Karen", bitching at me. I won't take that either.
Dropbox has a white manager that has publicly come out and said that she will overlook white people in favor of hiring black people just because of their color. Coming from a mixed family as I do, none of us, of either color, want to be treated that way. We just want to be treated fairly. That's all any of us want. And I believe that's true for most people. Yes, some people just have their hand out. But most just want to be treated fair… to have a fair chance.
I wrote repeatedly to this filthy company asking them if they support this kind of behavior. Nobody would answer me. Finally I demanded that they answer and tell me what corrective actions have been taken to be sure that everybody gets a fair chance. I could hear crickets once again. Not one single responsive answer.
Anyway, sync.com has more than met our needs. It is a bit slower that's for sure. But just a couple of days ago they sped up their service. They are listening. In addition two of us from the same company purchased a pro plan from sync.com for a total of about $30 a month. And that gives us unlimited space. Yes, you read that right… Unlimited space.
Not only that, but sync.com is genuinely private. They can't look at what you put up. It is fully encoded. This is something that is far from the "woke BS" that drop your box practices. Drop your box has terms of service that openly and clearly stated that they will do whatever they want with your contact including read it, give it to anyone else they want to or do anything they want with it. It is disgusting.
Drop your box, dropped their game when they decided to go woke and throw it in all of our faces. They dropped their game when they decided to sell out our privacy. And they dropped their game even worse when they bend over to what Apple says and just leave their clients high and dry. Putting all of my data on my primary drive is a 100% no go. And I know that this is true for many, many other companies and people.
But one thing is for sure, when one door closes, another opens. Drop your box has proven that they are not deserving of our money. I have gone to a free account and no longer pay them. Same with numerous others that I know and some even from within our own company.
Let's say you were a content creator and had 10 or 12 TB of data you'd like to have backed up. Good luck finding a primary hard drive especially an SSD that would do that. This is a non-starter on its face. Ridiculous. Beyond ridiculous. Yes, not everybody has that much data. But a lot of us do. And even 2 or 3 TB is more than I want on my primary hard drive.
Well for the majority of us, the next-door has opened. A competitor has stepped up to fill the gap and is doing so, wonderfully.
