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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!
psalcal's avatar
psalcal
Collaborator | Level 10
If anyone knows they aren’t telling. I think the last official announcements were apple needs to fix it and then there was a follow up later that said Dropbox was looking for a solution and people could use the other version which allows external drives for the time being.
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jaesm
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

Lot's of you are talking about file provider and keeping old versions and workarounds. Are you talking about an enterprise version? I run a small music studio and I just downloaded the latest home version of Dropbox; I'm on the latest macos and I haven't had to do anything special. It just has the option to pick an external drive now. I really wish an employee would chime in but since crowdsourcing is their idea of customer service, I won't hold my breath. Haha.

  • ms25's avatar
    ms25
    Helpful | Level 7
    2 years ago

    I believe the installer is not using Apple File Provider by default now. If it asks you to update, don't do it. Still not a real fix, to the best of my knowledge... just using the old kernel extensions still, which Apple will drop with an update at some unknown date.

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