Ed,
Dropbox' Linux client 32 and 64 bit works just fine on Ubuntu, Debian,
Mint, Lubuntu, including virtual machines, both desktop and server; always
has, never lost a thing, barely a stutter even on poor broadband, even with
the free account. It just works quietly in the background at its own pace.
Or was there more to the question than that?
Rgds
RC
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Robin Catling
Full Circle Podcast
On 14 August 2014 20:18, <jlk@???> wrote:
> On 2014-08-14 10:58, Edward Beckmann wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Does anyone have experience (good or bad) of sync'ing drive files
>> locally, or directly with a dropbox account, with linux as the OS.
>>
>> I'm not into a debate about the trust / security issues of either as
>> they are a separate issue. There simply seems to be a variety of free
>> and paid-for offerings and I'd welcome the experience of anyone who
>> has tried to achieve this themselves.
>>
>> Personally, dropbox works for me but I need to be able to link to
>> files in a cloud as opposed to locally. Running a separate data server
>> myself is not an option.
>>
>> I guess you could say that I have a Google ring in my nose. 18 months
> ago
> I bought a Chromebook. A couple of days ago, I doubled down and bought
> a Chromebox. The hardest admin task I ran into with the new box was typing
> in the Wifi-Router password to connect to the network. The software on
> the new box was several months out of date but once it automatically
> downloaded
> the latest version and rebooted, everything sync'ed between my two Chrome
> machines. Passwords, browser history, bookmarks, and of course all files.
>
> It's not Dropbox and it's now pure Linux, but it does work. YMMV
>
> Next week or so, the Chromebox will have a H/W upgrade to memory and SSD
> disk.
> I will continue to dual boot Chrome OS and Mint or similar for a while. I
> like the security of Chrome and the once every 6 weeks or so re-boot to
> update
> SysAdmin but I do need a CLI fix from time to time. Just wish that Google
> would do for Linux what the did for MS Windows and provide a sandbox VM.
>
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