Dropbox won't recognize Unassigned Drive as NTFS

[Dirk Pitt]

For various reasons I want to run DropBox from a Windows 11 VM on Unraid. I don't want to use Rclone for various reasons. First I tried using a mapped network drive. Dropbox will have none of that. I know that I can buy Boxifier to make DB use a network drive, but I'd really like not to go down that route. Then I tried using Virtiofs share to a mapped folder. That made the share on Unraid appear as a drive in the Windows VM, but Dropbox wasn't happy as it wasn't formatted NTFS. I have an extra HD sitting around so I purchased an external USB enclosure and formatted the HD NTFS. I mounted this as an Unassigned Drive and shared the drive. I used the Virtiofs Mode again but this time used the source path as /mnt/disks/USBBackup. Again, Windows can see this as a drive, and the properties show it as NTFS. 

 

 

 

Dropbox still refuses to set this as the Dropbox Folder Location.

 

The reason given by Dropbox is that the drive isn't formatted as NTFS. Yet it is formatted NTFS. Does anyone have an idea of how to get Dropbox to use a Dropbox Folder Location that is either 1) a folder on the array, 2) a disk on the array, or 3) an  Unassigned Drive?

[itimpi]

No idea why it is not working, but I wonder if it is worth portioning and formatting that dtive to NTFS from within the VM?    Should not make a difference but who knows.

 

sldo make sure that dtive is set to NOT be mounted by Unassigned Devices as that could cause problems if you the try and also pass it to the VM.

 

[Dirk Pitt]

Thanks itimpi. I did unmount the drive in Unraid and the same problem exist. The still shows up in file explorer.

 

Windows won't format the drive either. It doesn't even show up in "Disk Management" (in Windows). When I right click on the drive in File Explorer and choose "Format Drive" it doesn't do anything.