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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!
TheMainOne's avatar
TheMainOne
Collaborator | Level 9

psalcal 

 

Hey there's my friend. Yes, I would sure agree with you that dropbox seems dysfunctional. But that would be my opinion of them overall. This is simply their latest manifestation of it.

 

From what I have heard, sync.com is benefiting from this snafu significantly. Although I haven't heard any numbers. So one would have to guess what significantly means. 

 

Our company sure did go there and I have been thrilled. We pay $30 a month for two people in total. This gives us unlimited storage. It is slower than dropbox but I am doing just fine with it. Takes a little bit of getting used to but if a person doesn't have a huge number of terabytes, it could work out pretty well for them. 

 

I'm glad to see you considering this. And hope all is well for you. 

UKD's avatar
UKD
Experienced | Level 12
2 years ago
TheMainOne I am curious when you say slower, what is slower?

I am looking at archiving a huge amount of our files on to my NAS and the rest of the files we use to stay on cloud. Speed. Uptime and accessibility are our main goals and my team are spread in Europe and Asia.

My video guys have some hefty file sizes so the speed is quite important.
  • ArthurPix's avatar
    ArthurPix
    Collaborator | Level 10
    2 years ago

    UKD I have also found the speed on Sync.com to be quite good.

  • jmeredi2's avatar
    jmeredi2
    Helpful | Level 6
    2 years ago
    Sync caps the speed at 40 Mbps.
  • ArthurPix's avatar
    ArthurPix
    Collaborator | Level 10
    2 years ago

    UKD I have also found the speed on Sync.com to be quite good. I have encountered problems but Sio far they are the usual ones I get when adjusting to a new service. More later.

     

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