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	jonnenau	2010-11-05 , 19:43
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Originally Posted by xur17

Here's a relevant help document from dropbox about syncing changes only:
https://www.dropbox.com/help/8

I am not sure if this is available in the api you are using, but it definitely exists in the desktop client.

Thanks for writing this app by the way. This was one of the things that android had that I wish maemo also had, and you made it!

No I certainly don't have this via a REST api, as said the pc clients have a udp or something pipe connection for these things. Its posible via http too but the api is very simple and this is out of the question. What im doing with it now is already quite impressive. Hope people would understand that on one of these days...

And yeah as I said if you have to mechanisms in place the binary diff as they call it there is not too hard to do. You just need full control whats going on on the client and the servers and that is what they have.

Originally Posted by zerone

Not sure if this is a bug or expected behavior but here is something weird I notice everytime I sync my Dropbox folders.

Say, I have a folder called folder2 in my DropBox which is located inside another folder called folder1. So the path from my home in DropBox account is "/folder1/folder2"

In the DropBox client on my N900, I have my default download folder set to "MyDocs/DropN900" and my sync path is set to "/folder1/folder2"

Now whenever I try to sync my files, it Downloads folder2 and it directly under the default directly instead of first creating a sub-folder called folder1 and then put folder2 inside folder1.

All files goto "MyDocs/DropN900/folder2" instead of "MyDocs/DropN900/folder1/folder2" as expected.

I don't know how your brain works but that is exactly what I should do if I ask you a folder to sync. Why would I then go and not get that but the parent forlder? If you want folder1 then select it. This behaviour would be neat if i wanted to keep the exact same hierarchy in MyDocs as what you have in the network storage.

I understand your point and this would be trivial to make but this is how I went with it. You select one folder at a time and I sync it to the default dl folder. I dont try to mimic the whole hierarchy from dropbox while doing so. This would propably get quite confusing once you start selecting sync folders from deep down. Just sync folder1 to make head hurt less or rearrage your dropbox to suit your needs

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Last edited by jonnenau; 2010-11-05 at 19:47.

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