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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...
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.
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
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.
Thanks UKD
Any idea when a solution is coming from Dropbox
and which cloud service are you migrating your data
regards
cvrasoan nobody knows. Dropbox says one thing and then a month later extends the deadline. This is why a lot of us are bailing out. Incompetence at the highest level.
Ru 1971 I did have a similar issue and I had quite a lot of folders synced, but as I've copied them over to sync.com and then de-synced them on my computer from the Dropbox account (I have left them on cloud for the moment as a backup temporality) then I noticed the icons started to re-appear. Now I am gonna shock you and tell you it's a known issue with Dropbox. Something to do with overloading of active icons. I can't remember the precise wording so don't flame me but it's something to with the integration of Dropbox and Finder. If I remember correctly I found it out with a long search.
I've been testing Sync.com on a couple of my machines, & it works pretty well. The only issue I have is that it interferes with the 'green/blue syncing checkbox' for my dropbox folder. I.e When Sync.com is running, I can't see the online/offline/sync status of my dropbox files in the finder.
I've tested this on an Intel & M1 Mac (both still on Monterey 12.6.5) & its the same behaviour in both cases.
Are other Sync.com testers having this issue too?
Would be great if anyone from Dropbox cared to comment on this thread, as I've got about a month to decide whether to jump ship before my subscription renews.
- I’m not sure I would use two sync services in the same directory. Seems like a bad idea.
