I'm using a Samsung Portable SSD T3 1TB, formatted to a secure partition of Mac OS Extened (Journaled, Encrypted).

Format your removable drive to athe mac journaled file system.

For integrity's sake, confirm your backup, maybe using a folder compare utility/app.

Backup your dropbox onto another drive (potentially time-consuming), and will include the dreaded.

Close the Dropbox application if it is running.

I simply use Dropbox application itself to manage this on other devices instead of needing an all-inclusive file system. If you need to share between file systems, I doubt this will work. Keep in mind, this plan assumes you ONLY use the removable drive on a Mac. However, after you make the backup, we can proceed. This can be a time consuming process, at least for me, because I keep so many consulting client's websites, backups, etc which lead to thousands of small files. The way I resolved this was to first, making a complete copy of my Dropbox onto another drive. But I wanted to put this item here to see if anyone had a better way of accomplishing this task. My solution is listed as an answer below, which I provided on the dropbox community page. So I had to find a way to remove all these files.

literally thousands of tiny little files, now with these pesky. I have tons of website templates, backups, websites. So I started deleting these files folder by folder, but this was going to take forever. _picture.jpg 0 byte file as well.ĭoing some research I found that this had to do with the Mac working with a non-mac journaled file system and creating these files for a reason that I forget now.

So if I had picture.jpg before, I now additionally had. This works for the most part, however I noticed that when I migrated to the file system on this portable ssd, that I now had THOUSANDS of. Having a Macbook with limited space, I purchased a portable SSD drive to keep my bigger files on, and my Dropbox folder.

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