“Please let me know if this drive will work with Dropbox? It needs to be an HFS drive. I did not find that information on your web site. Thank you”
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Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.HFS and HFS+ are two of several types of Mac OS X filesystems. HFS+ may also be named Mac OS Extended. File systems are formats your computer uses to store data. Sort of like if you have a cabinet with color coded folders, or instead a cabinet with folders sorted alphabetically. Sometimes you want color coding, sometimes you want alphabetized, depending on the amount of data you have. Some drawers can only hold 10 folders w/ stuff, others can hold hundreds. If you have a mac system, you should be able to reformat this as an HFS or HFS+ drive. This comes out of the box as exFAT, which Mac OS X should be able to read, however the dropbox app may not play nicely with it as per their own website. The requirements for a Mac OS X device on dropbox are: The Dropbox folder will need to be on an HFS+ or APFS-formatted hard drive with extended attributes not disabled https://www.dropbox.com/help/desktop-web/system-requirements HFS and HFS+ are not the same thing, please note! You want HFS+/Mac OS Extended. But again, if you have a mac os x system, you can format this to any of those options, you just need to find instructions online for your specific Mac operating system (i.e. Mountain Lion, or El Capitan, to name 2). Don't forget to enable Extended Attributes! For more info on Mac OS X file systems, see here: https://www.howtogeek.com/331042/whats-the-difference-between-apfs-macos-extended-hfs-and-exfat/ I am not affiliated with any of the links provided, nor any company that makes or sells these devices.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.The only way to get it to be recognized by drop box is to make it part of your system. Meaning you would have to add the drive to the C drive. There is a few videos online to show you how. The same idea applies to SD cards. This is the only way outside of a hard drive to get drop box to allow.
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