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Originally Posted by jonnenau

Updates

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

Originally Posted by jonnenau

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.

Originally Posted by kyros

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.

Originally Posted by paco758

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.

Originally Posted by sprite

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