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Re: Disaster: Dropbox removing external disk support for Mac users :(
Synology NAS includes a tool called Hyper Backup that allows you to back up specified folders on your NAS to any compatible resource. IDrive gives you a special key you can input into hyper drive and...
9 months ago Place Storage Space
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Re: Disaster: Dropbox removing external disk support for Mac users :(
No one who actually understands data management would call a Synology NAS backed up to IDrive a ‘clever experiment.’ This setup is just a lower priced version of what major corporations are doing wit...
9 months ago Place Storage Space
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Re: Disaster: Dropbox removing external disk support for Mac users :(
Just weighing in on the recent comments on this thread. No one here should be arguing over whether a person should purchase enough internal storage to satisfy the new cloud storage mechanism. That is...
10 months ago Place Storage Space
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Re: Disaster: Dropbox removing external disk support for Mac users :(
Curly123456You can’t ‘transfer’ your files from your local drive to the external. Any time you change Dropbox location, it has to completely download all of your files from scratch again. If you wer...
2 years ago Place Storage Space
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Re: Disaster: Dropbox removing external disk support for Mac users :(
Ben S.31Have you put that two-partition system to the test? Because unless something has changed, I don’t believe Dropbox allows you to point a new software install at an existing Dropbox folder to ...
2 years ago Place Storage Space
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Re: Disaster: Dropbox removing external disk support for Mac users :(
Curly123456The only way to relocate the Dropbox folder is to point the DB software to a new location of your choosing, and it will completely resync to that new location. You can’t drag and drop, or...
2 years ago Place Storage Space
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Re: Disaster: Dropbox removing external disk support for Mac users :(
UKDActually Sync doesn’t appear to have it sorted any better than Dropbox. In fact their solution is identical to Dropbox from what I gather - let customers use the old app until a real solution pre...
2 years ago Place Storage Space
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Re: Disaster: Dropbox removing external disk support for Mac users :(
UKDThanks for the info. Did/do you use the optional 10Gbe ethernet, or just bridge two 1Gb, etc? Sounds like it could actually work for my needs, just not sure if it's worth it given the cost of the...
2 years ago Place Storage Space
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Re: Disaster: Dropbox removing external disk support for Mac users :(
UKDAre you saying that you can now select which Dropbox folders/files are synced locally vs cloud with the Synology Cloud Sync? If so that's awesome, I don't own a Synology NAS yet, I was just going...
2 years ago Place Storage Space
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Re: Disaster: Dropbox removing external disk support for Mac users :(
ms25Synology NAS has a package called Cloud Sync, and I imagine many other NAS systems have similar options. The problem is that this is just a dumb pipe that syncs all files. Because of this you wo...
2 years ago Place Storage Space
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