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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.
tomcho wrote:
... Since posting the comment I learned that what I thought was smart sync was actually selective sync (which *is* simple and *is* available for Linux). The customer support person I originally asked this either did a very bad job at explaining to me what's what, or was as confused as I was. In any case, she was the main source of this confusion for me. ...
😆😁🙂 tomcho That's something normal for Dropbox support. Many times on my questions they demonstrate complete unfamiliarity with the product. 🤷 That's it.
stuckjFor sure APIs on different platforms are different. The main question here is proper application design. Once there is such, the matter is adapting/encapsulating APIs specifics and their isolating from the application main design. If there is opposite design, application based on particular API set, then it becomes matter of huge work and adaptation on porting to another API set. Unfortunately, seems Dropbox application' developers accept second way! 🤷 Seems you too: "While there might be some code re-use, there's a lot that can't be.". If so, this mean very bad application design! As seems to be.
About the "published API", it's a subset available for the application, from one side. From other side, most users are not developer and want just to use the service, not to work for Dropbox. Don't you agree?!
Of course there is another point related again to the application design. Do you really want "Smart Sync" to be ported in the form it is? The feature is example of a bad design at all. Lot of troubles on platforms where it's available! I don't think Dropbox will change the way application/features design gets made.
