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Re: Dropbox for N900?

great work mate, cant wait to test this

Re: Dropbox for N900?

Updates

- I have now received full dropbox access for my app, this means you can see all of your dropbox content. Not just the DropN900 sandbox folder.

- I have also recieved the mobile auth access, so you dont have to play around with webviews to do a proper oauth login. This will make the ui experience a lot better.

- Been reading about py2deb packaging. Im quite sure I can do this now after the research, seems that PyPackager that I tried at first was the wrong choice as you cant push .deb etc files generated with this in the web helper.

- I want to see if I could get the download/upload dialog bugs go away with native maemo widgets that I would call from c++ code. Or possibly just Qt in c++ as those dialogs work. Will see how this goes.

I'll try to get this to a better state before pushing to people. Due I know a few bugs that will annoy people and with the new permissions I can make the app a lot nicer.

I will create a new announce thread when the app is available to get feedback/bug reports etc :) Thanks all for the interest.

Best Regards,
Jonne Nauha aka Pforce

Re: Dropbox for N900?

looking forward to it, and thank you for ur work on this

Re: Dropbox for N900?

yeahhh... cant wait to test it out :) thanks for the good work

Re: Dropbox for N900?

Thanks man ...

try to put it in Coding Competition today..

Re: Dropbox for N900?

Quote:

Originally Posted by jonnenau (Post 758466)

Updates

I will create a new announce thread when the app is available to get feedback/bug reports etc :) Thanks all for the interest.

When you do open a new thread - leave a note about it here too - I,m subscribed and wouldn't wanna miss out :D

Re: Dropbox for N900?

Here we go http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=759059
hope I didn't get anything basic wrong so you can give it a try :)

Re: Dropbox for N900?

Quote:

Originally Posted by jonnenau (Post 753509)

What the dropbox API does not provide:
Note that dropbox does not synch automatically on mobile devices. The mobile API can be abused like this but they will ban you out. This means when you push 100mb from your PC to dropbox. You wont be syncing that to your mobile hard drive once using a mobile dropbox client. This would be grazy as people have 2-100gb storage in their dropbox accounts and your drive on the phone would end quickly.

seems to work perfectly fine on my droid, netbook, ipod touch etc etc.

you really must find a way to at least sync automatically specific folders or the application becomes a both a chore and a possible hazard to manually overwriting the updated files with redundant ones. computers are here to make lives easier are they not ;)

Re: Dropbox for N900?

Quote:

Originally Posted by kyros (Post 723724)

At the Dropbox Homepage there is a voting area for all registered users to collect votes for a feature request.
So here is the link to the vote for a Dropbox Maemo client: https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/80/maemo-linux-client

Please everyone who has a dropbox account go to this link and vote because there are only a few requesting votes left to trigger a freature request.

well i voted but in no way do i want my votes towards dropn900.

Quote:

Originally Posted by paco758 (Post 661167)

It's not a solution, but I wrote a script that would just invoke rsync to sync the files in my Dropbox folder on my laptop to the same on the N900 and vice versa. It works fine as a stopgap on a Linux box.

Just make sure rsync is installed and this should work for you as well. If you have your Dropbox folder in a directory other than ~/Dropbox, just change that. It doesn't mess up any symlinks that you have in the Dropbox folder either because of the -k switch on the second rsync.

Here is the script:

Code:

#!/bin/bash



### Settings ###

DIRECTORY='/media/Nokia N900/'

REMOTE='/media/Nokia N900/.documents/Dropbox'

LOCAL=$HOME/Dropbox

ORIGINAL_IFS=$IFS

IFS=$'\n'



### Script ###



if [ -d "$DIRECTORY" ]; then

        rsync -vauLP $LOCAL/ $REMOTE

        rsync -vauKP $REMOTE/ $LOCAL

fi

Just name it whatever you want (ie - n900-dropbox-sync.sh) and make it executable (chmod +x).

I've also attached the script.

to be perfectly honest this is a much better solution !!

hopefully one day we'll see a realistic option

Re: Dropbox for N900?

Quote:

Originally Posted by sprite (Post 950798)

You really think their own (the dropbox company) mobile apps use their own limited REST API. Or would you think they use their own piped networking that will give them real time updates and all that nice stuff.

I did automatic checks for my app. And if you cant take the time to read the API docs and/or are not a developer, I would suggest you dont start speaking about things you don't know.

"computers are here to make lives easier are they not". No not really, its the developers who code you the applications, computers cant do **** them selves. If I was a multi million company and had hundreds of guys coding for me, yeah you might see something a bit nicer. I was one guy who spent his whole summer holiday making a client for you all, so pls keep it piped in the future. ****ing hate these "its easy to do for Microsoft, why cant you do it at home" comments, just makes my blood boil when I put propably hundreds of hours in my summer holiday to do something nice.

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Yeah and the votes you are giving at their site is for them to make you a N900 client. Guess what, they are not going to make any investments to port or code a client for this dead OS that is currently in one freaking phone that did not sell that well either. So NO it was not a official dropbox vote if I should make the app, it was for the company and they are really not interested. But I happened to make you a client, if you dont like it its your choise then not to use it. Jesus christ...

Re: Dropbox for N900?

Well I appreciate your efforts and think you've done a fine job. Many, many thanks.

Those who wanna whine and complain should either:

a. Make a very polite suggestion.
b. Start coding their desired fixes or features or...
c. STFU!

Remember, one guy is doing this for you for free!