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

Post by agys » Sun, Aug 15, 2021, 2:22 PM UTC

iamcreasy wrote: post #199

agys wrote: post #106

I’m looking forward to test this client…! Dropbox was an exceptional product with perfect OS integration and interesting features like the “public folder” with an added web server, a versioning system, etc. My use case was not storing big backup files in the cloud but synchronise files between several machines: keeping compatibility with older systems/devices and smaller but cheaper DropBox (100GB?) sizes would have…

> features like the “public folder” with an added web server I thought Dropbox disabled this feature? From here: https://help.dropbox.com/files-folders/share/public-folder Excerpt: Using the public folder to render HTML content :: As of October 3, 2016 Dropbox Basic (free) users can no longer use public links to render HTML content in a web browser. If you're a Basic user, and you created a website that directly disp…

Post by coreyward » Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 3:04 AM UTC

gwbas1c wrote: post #154

whydid wrote: post #152

Can we all take a moment to discuss how Dropbox, the publicly-traded company with a 1b market cap, still doesn't have a native m1 client for MacOS? Does anyone have insight on what's taking them so long? I assume they forked an older version of Electron that doesn't support m1.

The new Dropbox client is written in Rust. You can't build a file sync client with Electron. You need very granular filesystem access, which is something that Electron does poorly.