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Jon C.10
2 years agoCollaborator | Level 8
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...
- 4 months agoHi 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!
psalcal
Collaborator | Level 10
If I didn't know any better, I'd say you're a real SJW TheMainOne Good luck with your evangelism.. 😉
TheMainOne
2 years agoCollaborator | Level 9
psalcal
Fantastic to see you again my friend. And thank you for keeping the conversation going.
It thrills me that so many here are interested in keeping this conversation going. And I don’t blame you. I do too. I think white drop your box has done is despicable to say the very least.
If there are more responses I will elaborate further. So hopefully we will get more responses.
Thanks again and I wish you well.
Fantastic to see you again my friend. And thank you for keeping the conversation going.
It thrills me that so many here are interested in keeping this conversation going. And I don’t blame you. I do too. I think white drop your box has done is despicable to say the very least.
If there are more responses I will elaborate further. So hopefully we will get more responses.
Thanks again and I wish you well.
- Michael C.1212 years agoHelpful | Level 6
PLEASE keep doing that thing where you add that hilarious play on words parody of the Dropbox name. And please do it ad nauseam in EVERY meaningless post. I want to see how many times it takes for that to stop being hilarious. But so far, amazing job, because it appears to be the gift that keeps on giving.
- Michael C.1212 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Two conflated issues here:
1. The external drive support - Dropbox management aren't idiots. They realise this is a deal-breaker issue for a large part of their clientele. When they say they are working on it, I absolutely believe they are because if it's not sorted, I, like many others will drop them for another service or perhaps just use Synology Drive on my own NAS.
2. Your other concern and the constant overuse of the term 'woke' as a pejoritve - please make a new thread for that to avoid confusion. It will make your point more strongly. Then the 50 or so people you think will make a difference in this thread can choose to go over there and help you in your battle. (Which, in my opinion, if you really want to be heard on a social issue, hijacking a technical topic deep in the forums is not the way to go about it).
- UKD2 years agoExperienced | Level 12TheMainOne
It seems you like hijacking threads for your own personal goals. Whatever your beliefs or opinions are on the matter, this thread specifically is about the lack of ability to use external storage in the upcoming release of Dropbox.
So… for what I can see from other peoples comments let me lay this down nice and easy for you. Do your SJW work somewhere else. This thread is not the right place. Whether anybody agrees or disagrees with you is entirely up to them. Most of us live in countries that give us the freedom to have and give our opinions without fear of repercussions.
So me being nice and polite, take your message elsewhere and let those who use this thread for the title of the thread continue onwards without having to read your SJW comments and deal with your personal activism on against the company for something that has nothing to do with you. If this offends you, then sorry snowflake but maybe you should crawl in to your feather laden soft bubble where there’s no sharp edges and people speak softly at you whilst spooning you your food and wiping your ar*e with the softest toilet paper in the world. - psalcal2 years agoCollaborator | Level 10
TheMainOne so glad to see you among the great class of SJW's, welcome. I'll send you the welcome packet, expect it soon.
If you think that posting on a dropbox site is going to lead to some great awakening of the masses, well.. as the kids say... you do you, my friend. - psalcal2 years agoCollaborator | Level 10I absolutely am a SJW! We both are now. Welcome to the club! Together we use the Dropbox forums to change the world!!!!!
- KyleKoch2 years agoHelpful | Level 6I do appreciate leveraging purchasing power to influence corporate good governance. I’d also suggest if you want to make positive change, it starts with dialogue that invites participation rather than alienates through condemnation.
That said …
Can we just keep this topic focused on what it’s supposed to be about and not flood it with completely unrelated info.
It’s not cool to hijack a thread. Bad form all the way around. It’s very disrespectful to the people here who are looking for specific technical answers. We don’t want to wade through unrelated info, thanks.
Please and thank you! - psalcal2 years agoCollaborator | Level 10Not trying to change minds, but trying to raise awareness? How is that working for you so far? I wonder how successful it might be to use dropbox forums to make a political point?
Any good social justice warrior is able to tell when they’re making a difference or not. Not so sure you’re doing a whole lotta good here friend. - psalcal2 years agoCollaborator | Level 10
"Would appreciate anybody else who is disgusted by this like we are to also join in and demand a response from the company."
Tap tap tap.. is this thing on? Helloooo???? Is there anybody out there? - TheMainOne2 years agoCollaborator | Level 9psalcal
thank you so much for your unsolicited advice. You speak like a true SJW so I’m very happy.
Again, I really appreciate you keeping the conversation going. I don’t really have any expectations other than her and a lot of people will likely read this and that’s all I really care about.
So again, I really thank you for keeping this going. You’re doing the world a good service. And you’re showing yourself to be a good advisor to SGW’s of what you surely must be the leader.
as you well know my friend, I have two things against drop your box.
1. The incredible lack of customer service when it comes to simply keeping us notified of the issues at hand. Simple things, like telling us before we have to come screaming that everything is going to change and pretty much make the service unusable for a good percentage of us.
2. The way the company has managed to themselves in typical absurd wok fashion. And here I have made my point numerous times but thank you to Psacal the conversation continues.
The second point is a real issue. I think everybody would like to be given a chance to be hired based on their qualifications not based on their color.
The dropbox has a white manager who has stated publicly that she would prefer hiring a person of color even if they don’t have the qualifications of a white person.
This is disgusting. At least anybody with any sense of dignity personally. our family is of mixed heritage and mixed colors. all of us would prefer to be hired on our merits then because of our color.
Thanks again psalcal for your generous support of this topic. I love it that you keep the conversation going and would ask that you please continue as I can’t wait to install what has happened and even greater lengths. - TheMainOne2 years agoCollaborator | Level 9psalcal
That’s excellent to hear. I’m sure with you as my SJW guide we will have tremendous success. 🤣
One problem with the “Woke mindset“ that I’m sure you’re aware of is the issue that drop your box has with simply not bothering to inform us. The woke mindset simply believes that we’re kind of lesser people and we don’t really deserve to be told or taken into account.
we see this on exhibit here with them not bothering to tell us in advance about their service screwing everybody over. And we further see this with them saying that this issue has been resolved.
I will hold off on expanding further on the other issue near and dear to my heart simply because I will use another post for that so we can hopefully include more people to see things.
Thank you for your support. 😂
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