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When will online-only files work on Linux?
I need to save space on my hard drive. Online-only files would be the perfect solution, but it still does not work on linux fedora.
When will we have this solution?
edugsdf wrote:
I need to save space on my hard drive. Smart Sync would be the perfect solution, but it still does not work on linux fedora.
When will we have this solution?
At the moment, Smart Sync is only available on Windows and Mac. Dropbox has made no announcement on its availability on Linux. They usually don't discuss timelines or upcoming features until they're reaady to announce them, so we likely won't know that it's coming until it's already here, assuming that it's coming at all.
Rich
Super User II
Super User II
edugsdf wrote:
I need to save space on my hard drive. Smart Sync would be the perfect solution, but it still does not work on linux fedora.
When will we have this solution?
At the moment, Smart Sync is only available on Windows and Mac. Dropbox has made no announcement on its availability on Linux. They usually don't discuss timelines or upcoming features until they're reaady to announce them, so we likely won't know that it's coming until it's already here, assuming that it's coming at all.
I cancelled my paid Dropbox plan when I realised that I wouldn't actually be able to use the space on Dropbox, because it will fill up my laptop's disk.
For anyone brave enough, I believe this is the source code, so you could try hacking that to add the "Smart Sync" feature:
https://github.com/dropbox/nautilus-dropbox
Alternatively, users may try using rclone with Docker (or any remote storage provider) to get similar behaviour, albeit without a UI:
https://ostechnix.com/mount-dropbox-using-rclone-in-linux/
There are of course plenty of alternatives around now. I wonder if gitfs + git-sparse-checkout could work...
joeytwiddle wrote:...
For anyone brave enough, I believe this is the source code, so you could try hacking that to add the "Smart Sync" feature:
https://github.com/dropbox/nautilus-dropbox
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joeytwiddle, It's not matter of "brave enough". 🙂 The sources, you posted, are about Nautilus' plugin, not any Dropbox application sources! You cannot add there any application feature (including "Smart Sync" eventually) unfortunately, but only add/change how existing Dropbox features look like in Nautilus. Those are different things. 🤷
rclone has a UI, or rather, it works with the file manager such as nautilus.
Yes exactly. So can someone explain exactly how you would rclone/through the file manager with Dropbox? I'm assuming you cant open/edit files and then save them directly from the rclone/dropbox directory and instead you need to copy the file to locate directory, edit/save it, and then copy and overwrite back to the rclone/dropbox location so it syncs again. Is this correct or can you open/edit/save the file directly with rclone???
I'm also on my way out of Dropbox because of this (really bad overall Linux support). This is my final year on a paid Dropbox plan (after a decade). I won't renew. There are both other cloud storage options these days that are both more affordable and have better Linux support.
