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Stuart L.9
Helpful | Level 6
12 months ago
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How can I sync my Mac to an external drive?

Hi,

 

I have been a Dropbox subscriber for over 10 years.

 

Recently Drops box has forced me to Sync to the internal SSD of my laptop. I have insufficient space on my internal SSD and need to sync to an external drive.

 

I use Lightroom and making files offline is not a solution for me.

 

How can I revert Dropbox to sync to an external drive, currently Dropbox tells me this version of macOS requires folders to be stored in ../Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox.

 

My account is up for yearly renewal next week. If I can solve this then sad to say I will be leaving you...

 

Creative Cloud Lightroom, Google Drive and OneDrive do not have such an arbitrary limitation, I have tested them.

 

Hope there is a solution other than abandon ship.

 

KInd Regards

 

Stu

 

 

 

 

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  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
    12 months ago

    Hey Stuart L.9, thanks for reaching out to us and thanks for your feedback.

     

    Can you take a look at this article and let us know if it helps?

     

    Thanks.

  • Stuart L.9's avatar
    Stuart L.9
    Helpful | Level 6
    12 months ago

    I am willing go as far as uninstall/reinstall dropbox or reinstall MacOS if a fresh install of Dropbox will give me the option to select a dropbox folder manually during install and dropbox tells me that this will be supported going forward. I notice that LAN sync no longer works when using cloud storage which is an extremely useful feature for the number of files I have. 

     

    If yo

    • Hannah's avatar
      Hannah
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      12 months ago

      Hey Stuart L.9, thanks for reaching out to us and thanks for your feedback.

       

      Can you take a look at this article and let us know if it helps?

       

      Thanks.

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