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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...
TheMainOne Interesting. I'm still quite happy with Sync — whenever I've had a question for their techs, I've received a prompt answer, either same day or next day. However your complaint did strike a note in one sense, as there is no user community to whom I could submit problems. This is one aspect of DropBox that I really like.
Anyhow, after reading your comments, I checked out PC World's list of Best Cloud Services. I also checked the number of WorldWide Users for each platform. By far and away the most popular services are iCloud, with over 800 million users, and OneDrive, with about 500 million..
By contrast, the third party services are led by DropBox, with a staggering 700 million users. Sync.com says it has over 2 million "users and businesses," pCloud has 16 million users, and iDrive (which calls itself the world's most popular cloud service) has 4 million.
But who is the best? Well, PC Magazine hedges its bets, as you can see here: https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-cloud-storage-and-file-sharing-services
Note that "Best Overall" is oneDrive, which has the distinction of corrupting every single PDF, pages, docx, and jpeg to which I once entrusted it. Also, DropBox, truly the world's most popular cloud storage service is never even mentioned! Nor is pCloud. I have given iDrive a whirl—at its amazing introductory offer of $15.95 for a year of 5Tb of data --and is far HATE the UI, which requires me to DOWNLOAD any file I wish to view. More later...
Can icloud use the external drive?
I just set up my new MacMini M2, Dropbox installed the OLD version.
Now it bothers me to update to the new version, but it's not automatic, I have to click/approve it.
The question is if it will be mandatory soon. Apparently the option to transfer the DB folder is there.
I didn't transfer my Dropbox folder to my new external drive (it hasn't arrived) but I will try and post here.I don't believe iCloud can use an external drive either. Plus iCloud is not good for professional users. I'm pretty sure documents don't automatically download. You have to initiate it each time.
Oh bullcrap, they know it exists!
This video shows how it might work.. again I haven't tried this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdUc78AE2hM
So as far as I can see, anyone wanting Dropbox Synced to external volumes can be on Ventura and not use the new API. The Status Quo remains at least for now
What about Google Drive. Has anyone tried to use it with an external drive?
That is, I believe, correct, it still works for me on previous OS as long as you don't update Dropbox to latest version.
The version of Google Drive I have does no longer allow moving the content to an external drive, it now says "controlled by Mac OS".. there used to be a command line solution but I haven't tried that in a while. It used to work but I can't verify that it still does. I pointed to the command line solution earlier in this thread.
I just contacted GDrive customer service...they don't even know the problem exists...what a mess.
marcosdutra good question. I'll have to research this. I'm pretty sure you can put the entire boot drive on an external Disk, but am not sure if there's any solution short of that drastic step. I really wouldn't want to entrust my entire build to a striped RAID, which is what I do with my cloud storage, but I'll have to look into your question, marcosdutra .
