Thread: [Announce] DropN900 - the maemo 5 DropBox client
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2013-07-15 , 17:51
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Originally Posted by Raimu View Post
Hi again, Marshall! The package you put in extras-devel didn't install for me using regular means, because it replaces files that another package originally installed by "python-dropbox-client". It needed the --force-overwrite parameter.
Thx for the hint, i'll modify the package so that it will install without --force-overwrite.

Originally Posted by Raimu View Post
I was wondering about why DropN900 doesn't give any progress indication, percentage or anything, when up- or downloading? Is there a API-related reason or something similar to it that it can't be done or isn't plausible?

I know this isn't an app that's supposed to be used for stuff over 100MB in size, but still. Sometimes you have to transfer large files, and it's kind of a game of guessing now to know if the transfer's even still working.
Performance improvements are next on my todo list. I'll try to speed up the syncing process with the delta function, which is provided by the new api.
About download/upload speed: Has anybody used dropn900 with the old api and can say that it's slower now? This could be the case because of the modifications i had to make to use the python OpenSSL module instead of the ssl module. I also plan to add progress bars for upload/download
 

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