{"id":131837,"date":"2023-02-15T03:11:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T03:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/23\/02\/15\/dropbox-losing-external-drive-functionality-due-to-apple-api-change?utm_medium=rss"},"modified":"2023-02-15T03:11:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T03:11:14","slug":"dropbox-losing-external-drive-functionality-due-to-apple-api-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/15\/dropbox-losing-external-drive-functionality-due-to-apple-api-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropbox losing external drive functionality due to Apple API change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/dropbox-losing-external-drive-functionality-due-to-apple-api-change.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div>Why is Apple doing this? Security? With many people thinking of buying minimal internal storage, and using external storage for most things, this will not work. Even I bought minimal internal storage, to find out thinks like Audiobooks will not work from external storage. Really??? Those Audiobooks take up a good amount of space.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t some automation help in the Dropbox situation?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nProbably because Dropbox competes with iCloud and external drives compete with Apple\u2019s up charge for larger internal drives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is Apple doing this? Security? With many people thinking of buying minimal internal storage, and using external storage for most things, this will not work. Even I bought minimal internal storage, to find out thinks like Audiobooks will not work from external storage. Really??? Those Audiobooks take up a good amount of space.&nbsp; Can\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-insider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}