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Re: Show HN: I created an app to sync any folder with Dropbox

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tobib wrote: post #9
_razvan wrote: post #2

Hi there, Razvan (author) here. I created an app to sync any folder with Dropbox. It currently works on Windows. Haven't finished the website yet, just the app. A little background on the app: I wanted to backup my external drives to Dropbox for a while and tried using symlinks but those don't work for that. If you remove the external drive, all your files will get deleted from Dropbox. Also, you need to restart Drop…

Would you mind giving a bit more information about how it's working?

Sure. It adds a file system virtualization layer under the Dropbox desktop client so that folders outside of Dropbox are seen by the Dropbox client as part of the Dropbox folder.

Boxifier monitors those folders for changes, aggregates the changes and then passes them to the Dropbox client through the virtualization layer.

Re: Show HN: I created an app to sync any folder with Dropbox

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bvirkler wrote: post #12

Just curious, why only 30 minutes to try out the premium features?

One of the reasons is that I've seen it as a common practice with other software I used. For instance, the demo version of Traktor Pro 2 DJ-ing software closes itself after 30 minutes.

We've also set a high quality bar for us with 30 minutes. If the product doesn't deliver on its promise in 30 minutes then it means we need to do better.

We chose the 30 minutes instead of making the product a 7-day or 14-day or 30-day trial because we prefer freemium to software trials. With a number of days for you to try the software you can for instance install on day 1, go to a business trip on day 2 and when you return on day 7 realize that the software expired and you didn't even get the chance to try it out. With the attention economy of today, we believe day-based software trials are broken.

With Boxifier, if you don't find the time today you can try out the premium features again tomorrow, next week or whenever you find some free time because the product never expires.

Re: Show HN: I created an app to sync any folder with Dropbox

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Post by robinhoodexe »

rolfvandekrol wrote: post #14
robinhoodexe wrote: post #4

It already exists on OS X[1], and it also works with Google Drive and a bunch of other cloud storage providers. [1] http://www.zibity.com/macdropany.html

Which basically is a limited grafical interface for `ln -s`.

True, but it works exactly as you'd expect it to.

Re: Show HN: I created an app to sync any folder with Dropbox

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Post by zzleeper »

_razvan wrote: post #2

Hi there, Razvan (author) here. I created an app to sync any folder with Dropbox. It currently works on Windows. Haven't finished the website yet, just the app. A little background on the app: I wanted to backup my external drives to Dropbox for a while and tried using symlinks but those don't work for that. If you remove the external drive, all your files will get deleted from Dropbox. Also, you need to restart Drop…

Hi Razvan,

Is there a way to exclude some files? Or can one be added? E.G. i tend to have a "tmp" subfolder that I want to exclude; or maybe exclude some file extensions? (kinda like .gitignore does?)

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