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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.
This has been ongoing for 2 years?
2 years we have been paying for this feature and it is not available?
Please advise on the progress of this? When will Smart Sync be available?Hi. Please advise the plans for better support for Linux. Paying customers are pleading for it. Thank you.
Goog morning.
Another paying customer needing support for smart sync in Linux (Ubuntu / Elementary). Information about wether the company has plans to implement this feature or not should be nice to make a decission.
Thank you
+1 for this feature request. I have been a paying Dropbox customer for years and have recently switched to Linux. The Dropbox user experience on Linux is 3rd class compared to Mac and Windows. Support for SmartSync is the number one thing I'm missing.
We're Linux users, so perhaps we can add the features we want to their source code: https://github.com/dropbox/nautilus-dropbox
Or if that's too difficult, we can use an alternative open source product.Linux Users are better than others and deserve this implemented before than others :P
pls immeplent smart sync for linux. Linux is more stable than Windows. Why linux users is not treated the same as other users?
I've been using cloud storage services only for small documents mainly because I don't feel quite satisfied with the speed of Rclone. Then I discovered the Dropbox client for Linux, which can utilise my full bandwidth almost all the time. So naturally I started considering subscribing to Dropbox so that I can move some of my photos and videos from my local NAS to Dropbox however the disk usage then certainly became a concern. I haven't got several teras just lurking around in my laptop and Selective Sync is obviously not an optimal solution.
Since this feature has already been implemented on Windows and macOS so I guess to bring it to Linux, it won't even require much change on the server side, only on the client side. Come on, Dropbox, just one step away from winning me over :)
- I arrived here when looking to see how SmartSync works with my linux ubuntu set up; only to find that Dropbox don't offer this nor do they have any plans to bake it. This is inexcusable, I'm off to look for an alternative.
Same here. I don't really need SmartSync. Selective Sync works, and that is more than enough for me. Currently, my Dropbox contains nearly 400 GB of data in over 23,000 folders and 462,000 files, but my 2TB drives are sufficient for this.
Soon, I anticipate needing to write much larger numbers of files while doing molecular dynamics simulations, but I can offload these to auxiliary backup disks.
Nevetheless, I have been relying on Dropbox for years to keep my 6 Linux and 7 Windows machines syncronized between two offices, and I certainly hope they do not abandon linux support.
