tape_ape
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2010-11-02
, 15:38
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@ Ottawa, CANADA
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#251
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2010-11-03
, 17:53
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@ Switzerland
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#252
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2010-11-03
, 23:20
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@ Portugal
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#253
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If you do any change to a file it will be fetched again completely, there is no way for me to know what bits to update etc the dropbox desktop clients get the whole file also not just updated "parts". At least this is what I assume and have noticed when using the clients.
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2010-11-04
, 20:32
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@ Israel
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#254
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Well... no.
If you have a big file and change just a few bytes the sync done by the Dropbox client is very fast (win/mac). In the example given, a TC file, the size never changes, the timestamp is reseted and still the Dropbox client keeps the changed bytes and only them synced. Even a conflict file (a complete new copy of some version) is created very fast, no full transmission involved.
That sad, I wouldn't expect a mobile app to do all that. It would be awesome, but probably not possible.
LARelogio
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2010-11-04
, 21:19
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@ Oulu, Finland
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#255
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Are you sure that only the changed bytes are transmitted? Have you looked at the network traffic to make sure that his is so?
You can't compare just on speed because one of the things that are really slow on the n900 (and similar devices) is writing to the non-onboard nand (where the rootfs is located) compared to the a regular HD.
I don't know how dropn900 handles it, butit could probably save some speed by splitting up the downloading thread from the thread that saves it to disk. (instead of having a read => write loop).
@jonnenau: Just wanted to give a shout out and say thank you very much for everything you put into making this app work great. Saved me quite a few times in the past 2 weeks.
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2010-11-05
, 03:02
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2010-11-05
, 10:49
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@ UK
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2010-11-05
, 19:24
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@ Philly
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2010-11-05
, 19:43
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@ Oulu, Finland
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#259
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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!
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.
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2010-11-05
, 20:09
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@ Philly
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#260
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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