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Jon C.10
Collaborator | Level 8
3 years ago
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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-...
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  • BenDBX's avatar
    BenDBX
    8 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!
lozzarozza's avatar
lozzarozza
Explorer | Level 3
8 months ago

My client currently runs this way, but ultimately it's still really slow 10GB and very expensive to upgrade all the Macs to a higher bandwidth.  Local storage (externally) is much faster.  Plus NAS is giving issues for many adobe programs etc.  files disappearing and adobe not really supporting this solution either. 

BenDBX's avatar
BenDBX
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8 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!
  • mkaufman's avatar
    mkaufman
    Helpful | Level 6
    8 months ago
    Thank god!!!
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    mkaufman
    Helpful | Level 6
    8 months ago
    Is it possible for me to read/learn the gist of how you pulled that off? Maybe keeping a super low res version in apple’s user/Library/CloudStorage and copying the high res version via your servers to my ext drive?

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