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News Dropbox 2.0 update adds one-stop menu

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by Meanmotion, 13 Mar 2013.

  1. Meanmotion

    Meanmotion bleh Moderator

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    Meanmotion, 13 Mar 2013
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  2. Platinum

    Platinum What's a Dremel?

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    Can I sync folders that are not in my dropbox install folder yet?
     
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    [-Stash-] What's a Dremel?

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    No.
     
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  4. XXAOSICXX

    XXAOSICXX Minimodder

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    That's why I use SpiderOak :)
     
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  5. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    I used to use SpiderOak, until the synchronisation function started serving up outdated copies of files and clobbering the new ones. Then I switched to Ubuntu One - it's the closest thing I've found to Dropbox that isn't actually Dropbox.
     
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  6. pbryanw

    pbryanw Minimodder

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    Wuala can do this too but it's Mac client is a bit rubbish at the moment (new beta on the way though). Windows is fine though and it comes in useful when syncing folders between PCs.
     
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  7. longweight

    longweight Possibly Longbeard.

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    Skydrive is bloody awesome.
     
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  8. Pliqu3011

    Pliqu3011 all flowers in time bend towards the sun

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    Especially if you have an old hotmail account lying around and get a free 25GB :D (don't know if that still works though)
     
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  9. longweight

    longweight Possibly Longbeard.

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    Sadly I don't think that it does.
     
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  10. yougotkicked

    yougotkicked A.K.A. YGKtech

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    well, I can't say I actually use the sharing features of dropbox much at all, but maybe this will give me a reason to.

    @Platinum: it's not a perfect solution, but simply moving the actual files to a subdirectory of your dropbox folder and placing a shortcut to said folder where the files used to be might be worth considering. Symlinks in linux would do it very well, but windows might not like it.
     
    yougotkicked, 14 Mar 2013
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  11. Bloody_Pete

    Bloody_Pete Technophile

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    I love Dropbox for my uni work! Plus I have 30gb for free because of the space race they did...
     
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  12. cebla

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    I use symlinks on windows to make other folders sync using dropbox and it hasn't caused any issues. I then have powershell script which I can run which I can run on a new machine to setup the symlink folders how I like them.
     
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