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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!
dandid's avatar
dandid
Helpful | Level 6

 GraphicQuarter 

I have an NVME drive 4Tb can be had for £180 now, and the disk write speed is as fast as the internal disk. just keep your mac studio and get an external NVME, then move your home directory to the external and your drop box will populate there. ?

 

 
 
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beenyweenies
Helpful | Level 7
2 years ago

Note that moving your entire Home folder to an external drive now comes with a firm warning that doing so can break your ability to log in. And indeed, if you poke around a bit, you will see hundreds of complaints of people upgrading to more recent versions of Macos being unable to log in to their accounts, access iCloud, the App Store etc.

 

I would be very cautious doing this, it used to be supported but it seems like Apple is moving away from that. 

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