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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-...
Has anyone got onto Apple about this?
It appears One Drive has developed a work around for this huge problem. See the heading "Using Another Volume" at this link:
Essentially the system drive still has the file aliases in the library folder but you can choose, on initial install, for these items to be synced locally at another location. This doesn't look like a hack, but rather something officially implemented by OneDrive. Unclear what the downsides are...
Insane to me that there has been no outreach from Dropbox about this upcoming change. The service has been such a key component to our workflow for so long. will be unfortunate to have to find an alternative.
Totally - using aliasing seems to be what Dropbox need to implement. Their current position of forcing everybody's data onto the system drive is untenable.
The criticality of the issue makes it shocking they haven't had any user outreach.>Totally - using aliasing seems to be what Dropbox need to implement. Their current position of forcing everybody's data onto the system drive is >untenable.
>The criticality of the issue makes it shocking they haven't had any user outreach.
It's quite extraordinary, I learnt about this from Appleinsider, not *dropbox*..🙈🙈.....I can't believe they are trying to sneak this under the radar like its a minor GUI change...its going to literally break thousands of businesses that have relied on it for syncing for over a decade....does no one in management understand how catastrophic this is for Pro users?
For years folks have bought Macs with smaller systems drives, because they can always add an external SSD for Dropbox syncing.Exactly! They quietly put up a webpage like it's a minor point release and don't even bother alerting anybody to the fact that our operations are going be upended.
I learned about this from a colleague who works in the creative industries (as I do). I posted the info to some industry forums this afternoon - so far, NOBODY had heard about it.
The way Dropbox have handled this beggars belief.
