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Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems

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Re: Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems

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Post by thomasfedb »

epberry wrote: post #34

I basically only use Dropbox because it is supported on Linux. Also its syncing technology is sooo much better than Google Drive you would think Drive was built by interns. However, they are taking their sweet time with newer features like Smart Sync. It's disappointing because I'm paying for these features and yet they're not supported on one of the platforms my whole company uses. All in all I really hope Dropbox d…

There's a decent open source sync daemon for OneDrive on Linux - I'm the packager who looks after it on Fedora. With the odd exception when APIs change it just works.

Re: Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems

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Post by Fnoord »

philipov wrote: post #82
srslack wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More seriously: Syncthing exists, and it is beautiful. I set my grandmother up with Synctrayzor and she doesn't know the difference between that and Dropbox. It is missing the ability to share things with a direct link, or share a repository or folder "easily" (read: in the same way it's done with Dropbox), but the trade off has been worth it for me.

I can't read that name without rearranging it to Snytching. Am I dyslexic?

Yeah.

Speaking of which, you can use such together with Cryptomator or GPG or whatever and synchronize your encrypted files. To any cloud. Or you can sync it to your NAS which stores them on an encrypted filesystem.

You can do that with Dropbox/Google Drive/etc as well. But I'd use that as yet another encrypted backup of my most important NAS content.

Re: Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems

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Post by filmgirlcw »

gargravarr wrote: post #102
Alex3917 wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The first iPod was terrible though and sold poorly. The 3G was the first good model, and they didn’t start taking off until the 4G. History only proves that his analysis was completely correct.

3G was when they added Windows support. Probably coincidence :)

No, Windows support came with the 2G in 2002. iTunes for Windows wasn’t a thing and few Windows machines had FireWire, but the Windows-compatible iPod came out in 2002.

The 3G was the breakthrough model, but I lend that as much to the dock connector (which was available in USB and FireWire) and the growth of x-platform iTunes as anything.

The broader point that it required Windows support for the iPod to become mainstream is of course true. That said, the iPod was also the reason so many of us became Mac users in the early 00s because the “halo effect” was undeniable.

Re: Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems

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Post by nebulous1 »

rcarmo wrote: post #48
nebulous1 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not in the latest Ubuntu installs. They do FDE instead of home folder encryption.

The option to encrypt your home folder is still there in Ubuntu 18.04 (which I set up only yesterday), and appears after you set up volumes upon initial user creation. It is (funnily enough) even possible to enable _both_ kinds of encryption simultaneously. I'd say that they don't use full-disk encryption _instead_ of home folder. They just prompt for it sooner (and it is not the same thing if you have a modestly old…

You can manually encrypt your home folder after install, and perhaps they re-enabled the option to do it automatically in 18.04.1 but I haven't read that. It was definitely not there in 18.04.

Re: Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems

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Post by dahdum »

Ecryptfa is the default for new Ubuntu installs, isn’t it? They might have well just come out and say they were dropping Linux support going forward instead of dance around it.

Their focus seems to be on cost cutting and better value extraction than growth and features these days.

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Post by Fnoord »

kbumsik wrote: post #55
michaels9876 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or just use Google Drive

Sorry, Google Drive doesn't support Linux.

No official support, but you can easily access the content read/write in multiple ways. I've used such a few years ago with a FUSE module, written in OCaml. The only complicated, annoying thing was getting authentication to work.

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Post by SEJeff »

nebulous1 wrote: post #30
kilian wrote: post #3

Seeing how an encrypted home directory is as good as the default option in Ubuntu, and seeing as it already works now , this seems like a dumb move. This is a shame because I just started using Dropbox significantly more to back up shared photos. Time to search for something else, I guess.

Not in the latest Ubuntu installs. They do FDE instead of home folder encryption.

Because LUKS > encryptfs, even though Dustin Kirkland has done absolutely fantastic work on encryptfs.

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Post by justinclift »

mxuribe wrote: post #60
vxNsr wrote: post #51

Dropbox isn't even the cheapest or best file syncing service, they're basically all a commodity at this point and if they don't want you as customers... just go elsewhere.

Would you kindly provide recommendations? I'm looking for a sync service which can run on windows AND linux (which is why onedrive and google drive are out)...and i'm willing to pay a fair monthly fee.

rsync.net seems to get mentioned around here every now and again. I haven't used them though personally, so not sure of good/bad/etc.

Unlike what their name (rsync) suggests, they do seem to support Windows clients and aren't *nix only:

https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/windows.html

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Post by jonknee »

swiley wrote: post #90
mxuribe wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you kindly provide recommendations? I'm looking for a sync service which can run on windows AND linux (which is why onedrive and google drive are out)...and i'm willing to pay a fair monthly fee.

Just use syncthing. It works better, is open source, and runs on everything.

I guess you could say it runs of everything unless you use one of the two most popular operating systems in the world: Android and iOS.

Re: Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems

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Post by jonknee »

geoah wrote: post #20
wslh wrote: post #7

Is this a new business opportunity?

Probably not as such users are just a vocal minority, and probably not enough to use as a consumer group.

And they really hate paying for stuff. Doubly so for things they think are simple and can be done "by myself".
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