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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!
cvrasoan's avatar
cvrasoan
Explorer | Level 3

need a solution fast -- I have 360 gb on my External Dropbox ssd -- and in the internal Mac mini drive only 150gb free -- need to point to the old ssd dropbox folder

 

UKD's avatar
UKD
Experienced | Level 12
2 years ago

cvrasoan can't you do selective syncing so that only certain files are permanently downloaded? 

This is quite a small folder so it doesn't seem like it's a major problem. Most of us with this issue have TB's of data rather than GB's.

 

Also, the external drive issue doesn't kick in until Dropbox actually release their new version, so for now you're ok with your external drive situation unless you're on their Beta version.

  • cvrasoan's avatar
    cvrasoan
    Explorer | Level 3
    2 years ago

    yes that is a good idea but I need some folders suddenly and the Internet connection bandwidth issues are there -- so it is better to have all the files on external hdd -

    it was working till I bought new Mac mini m2 pro and used data migration from my previous Mac book pro I7 with external SSD

    • UKD's avatar
      UKD
      Experienced | Level 12
      2 years ago

      sorry but I can't help you with that. I'm moving all my files away from Dropbox because of this but I hold TBs of files and folders.

      Maybe someone else can help.

      • cvrasoan's avatar
        cvrasoan
        Explorer | Level 3
        2 years ago

        Thanks UKD 

        Any idea when a solution is coming from Dropbox

        and which cloud service are you migrating your data

        regards

         

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