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Richard Schletty

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Re: Disaster: Dropbox removing external disk support for Mac users :(
My procedure (posted above) worked for me because I had unwittingly upgraded to "Dropbox for macOS on File Provider" several months ago – before Dropbox finally stopped prompting certain Dropbox user...
2 years ago Place Storage Space
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Re: Disaster: Dropbox removing external disk support for Mac users :(
EDIT: My procedure below worked for me because I had unwittingly upgraded to "Dropbox for macOS on File Provider" several months ago – before Dropbox finally stopped prompting certain Dropbox users t...
2 years ago Place Storage Space
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Re: Can't put the folder on an external drive on MacOS
I agree that this cannot be tolerated by Dropbox users. Something has gotta give. My 2016 MacBook Pro's internal SSD boot drive has only 500 GB of storage which CANNOT be upgraded thanks to Apple ig...
2 years ago Place Create, upload, and share
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Re: End of support for OS X 10.4 and 10.5
Is this a Dropbox users community forum or a Dropbox technical support forum? I haven't seen anything supportive from Dropbox, so censorship of third party solutions is untenable. I was under the imp...
10 years ago Place Apps and Installations
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Re: End of support for OS X 10.4 and 10.5
Jean-françois: I appreciate your followup comments. I am also irate about selective abandonmentof "older" hardware and operating systems by software companies who do not realize how important older ...
10 years ago Place Apps and Installations
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Re: End of support for OS X 10.4 and 10.5
I like the comments of Jean-François in French so much that I am offering a rough translation for English readers. I barely know any French. This was done with the aid of Google Translate: Jean-Fra...
10 years ago Place Apps and Installations
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Re: End of support for OS X 10.4 and 10.5
Erik Y: Thank you so much! Now I understand what another thread was talking about. I was holding down Option while clicking on the gear icon – nothing. I clicked on the menu bar Dropbox icon while ho...
10 years ago Place Apps and Installations
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Re: End of support for OS X 10.4 and 10.5
I was also able to implement the Dropbox client v. 3.2.9hack usingCzo's solution on two of my Mac PPC G5s (Mac OS X 10.5.8). The only problem is that the gear does not work in the lower right corne...
10 years ago Place Apps and Installations
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Re: End of support for OS X 10.4 and 10.5
If older vehicles were not allowed to travel the streets and highways, there would be a huge outcry. Dropbox, you must have at least one clever programmer who can figure out how to keep PPC Macs flow...
10 years ago Place Apps and Installations
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Re: End of support for OS X 10.4 and 10.5
I don't get it. Both version 2 and 3 of iDrive install on my Mac PPC (10.5.8) but neither can run (the app icons have an X over them). The iDrive web site says that Mac OS 10.5 is supported but appar...
10 years ago Place Apps and Installations
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