Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

Post by walteweiss » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 1:29 PM UTC

manigandham wrote: post #101

toxik wrote: post #94

I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software. 2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive. Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them s…

For reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Post by yojo » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 1:37 PM UTC

SilverRed wrote: post #87

baby wrote: post #73

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Yeah agree, public folders were great. I’m still a user of dropbox since early days but: - I’m stupid and I kept a git repo in there, it became corrupt. Doesn’t surprise me but wondering what else is fragile in dropbox. - Uploading pictures on mobile is really really slow. For some reason google photos on iOS is so much faster, like incomparably faster. - Google photos also allows you to quickly get to all your pictu…

The speed of Google photos is actually breathtaking. The fact that you can instantly lag free scroll through tens of thousands of images and it all just loads instantly is quite impressive imo. The problem with some of the competitors is they do not treat photos as its own thing separate from files. I think google did a great job understanding that photos are not just a folder of files but that they require their own…

Post by skocznymroczny » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 1:47 PM UTC

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #76

baby wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah agree, public folders were great. I’m still a user of dropbox since early days but: - I’m stupid and I kept a git repo in there, it became corrupt. Doesn’t surprise me but wondering what else is fragile in dropbox. - Uploading pictures on mobile is really really slow. For some reason google photos on iOS is so much faster, like incomparably faster. - Google photos also allows you to quickly get to all your pictu…

I think that they removed public folders because some people started storing static files for their websites in it. As for why google photos are faster... I think it is because Photos resize images on device, while Dropbox uploads them in original size.

Post by shapefrog » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 2:05 PM UTC

manigandham wrote: post #79

sylens wrote: post #7

I was a very early Dropbox adopter but eventually switched to OneDrive a few years back because they bundled Office 365 with 1 TB of storage. I just went and looked at the official Dropbox plans to see if there was a family plan similar to the 5 users I get with Office 365/OneDrive...and found their plan/pricing page overwhelming. There's rows upon rows of features to compare across versions like "Traffic and Insight…

Dropbox still has the best syncing tech [1][2] which handles complex situations with lots of files and responds instantly. That alone is worth it if you need it. However the rest of the product is crap. Dropbox had a solid business with a "magic folder that syncs" but has been chasing new features and product lines with little success. Even the enterprise offering was far behind Box.com for years and now has tons of…

Post by wiether » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 2:13 PM UTC

cerved wrote: post #77

jazzyjackson wrote: post #39

Would be cool to get around a limitation of Dropbox's native client: filenames with emojis (and other utf8 I assume) won't upload. If their filesystem doesn't like utf8, maybe the client could convert the offending filenames to base64 or punycode, and convert filenames back from the cloud... maybe I can find a place in the code to try this out, thanks for open sourcing. I notice you're using type hints in python and…

what kind of psychopath puts emojis in filenames??