Walt Mankowski via plug on 4 Apr 2022 18:02:08 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Alternatives to Dropbox on Linux

Oh wait, there IS an option to make an entire directory available offline!

Never mind, I'm good now. Thanks to everyone who made suggestions.

Walt

On Mon, Apr 4, 2022, at 8:54 PM, Walt Mankowski via plug wrote:
Fred,

I'm running the latest versions of both Dropbox and macOS. This is a
description of the problem I'm seeing:

https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integrations/desktop/macos-12-monterey-support

They describe a workaround for single files, but nothing for an entire
subdirectory which is what I need. My entire gnucash directory appears
as 0-byte files.

Walt

On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 08:47:50PM -0400, Fred Stluka via plug wrote:
> Walt,
> 
> Dropbox works fine on my MacBook Pro with macOS 12.3.
> 
> I've been using DropBox for just over 10 years.  Never a problem.
> I upgraded from macOS 11.6 to 12.3 about 2 weeks ago and it's
> still working fine.
> 
> Maybe check whether you need to upgrade to a newer version
> of DropBox?
> 
> --Fred
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Fred Stluka -- http://bristle.com -- Glad to be of service!
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> On 4/4/22 7:56 PM, Walt Mankowski via plug wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I've been a Dropbox user for a long time, and I've been paying for extra
> > storage for the last 5 years or so. I bounce around between Linux, Mac,
> > and Windows, and I need to have my directories synced between all 3
> > platforms.
> > 
> > This has worked great for a long time, but it seems Dropbox was using
> > some undocumented features on macOS. Apple closed these holes in version
> > 12.3 (which came out a few weeks ago) and now wants everyone providing
> > this kind of service to use a new API. Even though this was announced a
> > year ago, Dropbox still hasn't implemented it and so it's no longer
> > syncing directories to macOS.
> > 
> > They had *ONE JOB*…
> > 
> > I'm sure they'll fix if eventually. In the meantime I'm willing to look
> > into alternatives, but as far as I know none of their major competitors
> > (iCloud Drive, One Drive, Google Drive, Box, etc.) have Linux clients
> > that integrate into the filesystem as seamlessly as Dropbox does.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any alternatives they can suggest? I don't need any
> > bells and whistles. All I want is Dropbox's functionality from 15 years
> > ago -- a single drive that quietly and automatically syncs files between
> > Linux, macOS and Windows.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Walt
> > 
> > 
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