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Nope. There is no source code for it. What's even worse is that there is a bug on qemu that prevents the userland qemu from running the x86 client on ARM. The only thing you can do is add votes to the petition here: https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/358/linux-arm-support

> If your paid account expires or is downgraded, or the space granted to your account by a promotion expires, all of the files in your Dropbox folder will still be available to you on your computers, phones, and via the Dropbox website. However, Dropbox will only sync the amount of space allotted to your Dropbox account. This means that new files added to your Dropbox will not sync to other computers or be available online until the amount of disk space used in your Dropbox drops below the amount of Dropbox space allotted to your account.

Via their FAQ

So you will keep your files but will be unable to add more.

The other replies so far are incorrect. Dropbox detects changes at the block level and Truecrypt encrypts at the block level. If you change a 1 MB file you only need to upload the blocks it is spread over. See here or just search 'Dropbox Truecrypt block level'.

That said, the reasons not to use Dropbox like this are...

1. You can't make changes to a Truecrypt volume from multiple machines at once.

2. Multiple copies of the volume with a few changed blocks will be kept (temporarily) with Dropbox which opens up potential for the volume key to be stolen.

I've been giving Bittorrent Sync a shot and I'm finding it very good for what it is.

http://www.bittorrent.com/sync

No actual cloud service can be a pretty big limitation though depending on your use case and I've found the RAM usage to be noticeably higher than the Dropbox client at present.

Worth checking out at least. Wish it was open source.

Google Docs document https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mDtID0E30evDN1UcDFaNj2THqCkMlnK6h8okezAuXAM/preview?pli=1&sle=true with help and solutions

You could try Mediafire, they recently released a desktop client and reduced their prices dramatically.

It's 10gb for free then 1TB for only $2.49 a month, almost seems too good to be true so there might be a catch somewhere.

https://www.mediafire.com/upgrade/

After 4-5 days here is the (canned) response. I must say that this is pretty poor response time for an automated non-response.

Hi,

Thank you for your support request. Recently, we have been receiving a high volume of support requests and haven't been able to get back to you within a reasonable amount of time.

The volume of inquiries we receive on a daily basis prevents us from responding to all requests. Although requests from Pro and Teams users will be given priority assistance, we will do our best to get back to other inquiries when possible. If you are not a Pro or Teams user and you're looking to resolve your issue before we can respond, you may want to check out:

https://www.dropbox.com/help/

If you need to restore a large number of files and are unable to do so, please visit the following instructions to help us speed up the restoration for you:

http://db.tt/2QPImJ3g

If you are still experiencing problems, please reply to this message. We will try our best to get back to you, however we cannot guarantee a response. We're very sorry for the inconvenience.

Regards, The Dropbox Support Team

When you have billing issues it is typically better to not use anything that is public.

1. These forms of medium are busy and typically don't go to the right people. Thus your issue might get lost in the shuffle.
2. Typically you need to submit information that is better off being kept private.
3. If the company offers a support ticket or dedicated email for support use that as the notices go straight to people who can help you.

Dropbox has a support page that you probably missed. Click "Billing" then probably "Get help with other issue" and fill in as you can and I am sure they will get back with you.

CloudFuze makes syncing between multiple Dropbox accounts easy and efficient. CloudFuze’s desktop application allows users to add and access multiple Dropbox accounts at once, from one computer. With just one simple log in to the CloudFuze platform, all of your Dropbox cloud files are available to view, edit, and organize from one place! http://www.cloudfuze.com/multiple-dropbox-accounts-from-one-computer/

The simple fact is that if it's brought to their attention that you're storing copyrighted pireated files on DB servers, they may, as you say, have no choice but to delete them. Their terms: https://www.dropbox.com/terms#dmca are clear on this.

It may be that they never discover you're storing files you shouldn't be. It's up to you whether you feel it's a risk worth taking, but if you cannot afford to lose those files, I wouldn't be using DB to store them.

If this works: Better hope dropbox doesn't find out!

I would assume that he has a script that simply creates accounts from your referral links. Should work. Might not last. Wouldn't do it.

Currently you can get free space like this. Also you could get free space by using dropbox's picture upload. I've got 17gb, all legit.

Photos will have EXIF data. This is additional metadata about the image, what camera took it, sometimes where it was taken.

Here's the Wikipedia for that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchangeable_image_file_format

You can look up exiftool, or try something else, but the link to that is here:

http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/exiftool_pod.html

I would try adding something simple, and see if just adding any exif data is enough. Start by outputting something from an image that you know works, so you have an idea what it normally looks like.

Then try adding something reasonable to your image and see if it behaves the way you expect.

Get ready to learn a bit if this is all new to you.

i use Dropbox for the files which i want sync with my other devices..no i don't have my whole Desktop synced..i think like you maybe, i consider about the privacy even on trusted apps or organizations because many times they use and third parties apps..you must also read very well the terms and the privacy of the app..and maybe this can help you https://tosdr.org/#dropbox

Was the picture on the computer and then got deleted? If so, you might have some luck with PhotoRec. It's saved my butt a couple of times in the past. If the photo was just on dropbox though, I think you're out of luck.

My GoogleFu finally worked.

Expandrive does this now.

As does NetDrive.

I leave the post here in case someone else needs to know.

Seems like it shares some features with Odrive but i definitely like the option of making things available locally or just remain symbolic links - regardless it's pretty cool to see continuous innovation.

RClone is your friend here - https://rclone.org It is a command line tool that you need to run on your PC/laptop, syncing data directly from your plugged in external (usb?) drive to Dropbox, without the need to copy it locally first. Don't be intimidated by the command line syntax ʘ‿ʘ

It's not in the obvious place (Referrals). The information is under "How do I upgrade or downgrade my subscription?":

>Downgrading to a smaller Dropbox won't delete the files already there. For example, if the amount of disk space you use is above 18 GB and you downgrade to a Free 18 GB (2 GB + 500 MB per referral) account, the entirety of your Dropbox will still remain. However, you will not be able to add any new files to your Dropbox or return any files removed from your Dropbox until there is enough free space in your storage quota to do so.

This link might be relevant to your problem. Oron J makes a good point that Dropbox is a synchronization service, not strictly a cloud backup service. If two way synchronization isn't an important feature for you, a different (and less expensive) backup solution could serve you well. If you have a desktop computer anywhere on your home network, you can setup a Windows Storage Space or a RAID 1 configuration for two HDDs for an almost 0% chance of losing your data due to mechanical failure and transfer backups to it wirelessly. This would be a good place to start on that.

I've used a symlink similar to this in Dropbox in order to keep a single player Minecraft game in sync across multiple computers and I don't think it would interfere with iCloud or anything similar.

Of course make a backup before trying anything, but check this quick tutorial http://osxdaily.com/2015/08/06/make-symbolic-links-command-line-mac-os-x/

Basically you would want to move your files into the Documents folder on Dropbox to make that the "main" source location. (I'd suggest deleting them from the original Documents folder to make it easier to ensure that it works later.) Then follow the command line steps, using the Dropbox folder for the "original location". Check the original folder in Finder and see if you see the files inside again. Now go to the other computer and do the exact same thing, again the Dropbox folder being the "original location".

Now the Dropbox folder will be where you're actually saving stuff on either computer when you use your user Documents folder. Just make sure you let Dropbox sync after saving stuff so that everything is up to date

Okay, like I said, check to make sure you're not saving to a Downloads folder inside the Dropbox folder.

If that's not the issue, does it still happen if you start Chrome with plugins and extensions disabled? (See how by reading the first answer here.)

Does the info in this article help you, maybe? (Regarding the folders that can be backed up)

Otherwise, you may have to either adapt your workflow (meaning: put your files into the Dropbox folder and work on them there) or, if that's not an option for you, then accept that Dropbox may not be the right tool for what you're trying to accomplish.

According to what I read here, what you're asking for is not possible.

Personally, I would create a new folder in the Dropbox-folder, call it "whatever" and then use that folder to do what you want to do. If it's important for you to have access to this folder from the Desktop of your devices, then simply create a shortcut to that folder on each of your devices' desktops.

Have a look at this,

https://ifttt.com/connect/dropbox/onedrive

It may not be exactly what you need but it will allow you to sync oneDrive and dropbox,

so what you would need to do is when he sends you a on drive link click add to my one drive and it should then sync into your dropbox.

I recommend you get a cheap $5 or more VPS from digitalocean.com and install bittorrent sync which is a free program. That way you can securely transfer files to and from your own server and have 20 GB on their basic $5 package. They have more packages that have more space if that is important. But this is exactly one of the things I use on my server for. The good thing is you can then use the server for other things instead of only copying your files there. I hope that helps.

As it was mentioned earlier, you can convert your Amazon purchase of ebook (in azw3) to PDF using Calibre (https://calibre-ebook.com/). But the problem is Amazon books are DRM protected (ie default settings of calibre is not able to open/convert them).

You have to use Calibre with dedrm plugin (https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/calibre-plugins-the-simplest-option-for-removing-most-ebook-drm/).

DeDRM will remove protection from your book and you can easily convert them to PDF. Plugin has complete instructions regarding how to install and use the plugin with Calibre.

Here is the BEST way to do it for free : download the free Link Shell Extension : http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html

It will add a new item in the contextual menu, where you can pick a folder : "Pick Link Source". Then, in the dropbox folder, you can select in the contextual menu : "Drop As > Junction".

A folder junction in windows is basically an enhanced version of the shortcut. The applications won't see the shortcut as a shortcut but as a real folder instead, and your files will remain where they are. Symlinks are seen as symlinks by the applications, and thus won't work with dropbox, but junction are seen as folder by the application, and will sync as if the files were in the actual dropbox folder.

Ah sorry, must have looked over that part. I suppose for the same price of paying for premium Dropbox you could use something like SmugMug? Made for photographers to do exactly what you are trying to do.

Alternatively, I suppose you could zip up the photos and force the client to download to unzip full res photos perhaps?

If your storing data which should be encrypted such as passwords or bank details then yes you should be encrypting it. But this is also true for everything piece of data that you store online as nothing is truely safe.

If you want to to automatically encrypt your information on dropbox look into <strong>Boxcrypter</strong> this will encrypt all your information locally then upload it to dropbox.

Use KeePassX to generate & store random passwords for different accounts. Keep encrypted password database file in your dropbox so that you can access it from any of your computers.
Dropbox also has versioning, so no need to worry about encrypted file getting corrupted.

In that case, Dropbox does not do any throttling on its end, so it sounds like it's likely that either your ISP is throttling you here (unlikely), or that you're just not getting good connection speeds to their servers (more likely).

Where in the world are you located (roughly)? Can you go here and run a speedtest to San Fransisco, CA?

There's Odrive which has placeholders, download on demand and automatic unsync to keep disk space free and more. Unfortunately those features require paid version. It's really nice though.

Are they big files? As you're only allowed to share 20gb per day on a free account or 100,000 downloads. I believe we transfer may allow you to track. https://www.wetransfer.com/ And they allow large files.

I don't think so.

Alternatively, what I do, is I carry around a flash drive with a PortableApps suite on it anyway, so I installed DropboxPortableAHK on it, and it keeps all of the Dropbox stuff (including application files) straight on the flash drive. The host computer never sees the Dropbox app files.

You will need a computer with admin rights to first set it up, though, but after that, you can take it anywhere.

I use a service called MultCloud. The free version is good enough for my need. It will let you transfer 2 TB of data from one cloud service to another. Add the dropbox and google drive in your multcloud account and transfer.

However, the free version has limited speed and 100GB data transfer might take 3-4 days but it will save you the hassle of downloading them manually and uploading that to dropbox.

https://www.multcloud.com/

Can you not make a file request for a file and send the request link to your client?

https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/files-folders/create-file-request

OR use a dedicated service for the remote upload

https://www.multcloud.com/tutorials/upload-file-via-url-1234.html

Best thing I can suggest, which is what I use, is download Dropsync and set it up to "upload only" or "Two way sync" then go in tasker and create a profile that at whatever time opens Dropsync, syncs, then quits it. I used it for honestly over a year between my Nexus 4 and then the 5 without any hiccups.

Second suggestion- download Carousel and have it auto-upload. From my experience on my Nexus 5 and now 6 running Kitkat and Lollipop (respectively) I've had 0 known battery drain from doing it like this which is why I dropped the tasker/ manual sync combo.

I had the same issue..Dropbox official app uploads all screenshots image downloads etc to Camera Upload.. To add insult to the injury, it then renames these files as with the date and time of upload. So now we have two sets of files/images; same but with different names.

Earlier I used to to use Drop Sync (Play Store Link) free app on my android, but it supports only Dropbox. Later I found Folder Sync, (free and paid) as it supports many cloud services. Just create a pair of online and Offline folder, define some rules and voila!!

I might suggest Arq (https://www.arqbackup.com/) using the space you have on Dropbox for backup, though. I know I've found backing up my computer via Arq a good use of some of the TB of space I have on Dropbox Plus, and using something I'm already paying for beats paying an extra $5/mo for Backblaze.

I reached out to Dragshare's support, and they said there's no way at the moment to change the directory where files are stored...

I know Dropzone supports this feature (and you can change the directory in the settings file), but I was hoping for an app that did only what I asked in my post.

You could try using rclone to have the most control over one-time uploads/downloads.

After installing, Run rclone config to set up your Dropbox account. Then have two terminals open. In one you'd run something like rclone copy -P ~/<path-to-local-folder> dropbox:<path to-remote-folder> to upload your files, and something like rclone copy -P dropbox:<path-to-remote-folder> ~/<path-to-local-folder> to download.

I find I can get a lot more control over one-time uploads/downloads with rclone than with the normal Dropbox app. It's more complicated to make rclone do syncing really well like the native Dropbox service does, but for your use case, I think it could do the job nicely

It's a bit of an advanced solution, but if you're comfortable diving into the world of the command-line, you could give rclone a try.

It's the most efficient option you could find for your solution, but also a bit complex.

After you install rclone, You'll need to configure your dropbox account by running rclone config and following the instructions it gives you.

Then you can run a command like: rclone copy -P --include "2019-03*" dropbox:Camera\ Uploads ~/Feb-2019

and that will copy everything with a file name that starts with "2019-03" in the folder "Camera Uploads" into a folder in my home directory called "Feb-2019" (and ignore everything else in your Dropbox that doesn't fit that criteria)

It'll function a little differently if you're using Window's I'm sure; read around on how exactly to do it on there if needed. MacOS should be able to use that command just fine.

P.S., probably worth adding the flag --dry-run to any "copy" commands you run with rclone, until you're confident you've gotten the right command. --dry-run will show you what rclone would do if that command were run, without actually running the command. That way you can make sure you're not accidentally copying your whole Dropbox account to your harddrive. When you're confident you've got the command right, you can delete --dry-run and run the command, and you should be good-to-go

pcloud.com is a great alternative and cheaper too. I left Dropbox years ago, then tried with Google Drive but for a couple of years I am with pCloud and I have never regretted it.

I know it's not the same but you could always install Cyberduck just to get a feel for how Mountain Duck will work for you. Same developers. I'm currently using Cyberduck to upload files here and there to B2 as well as keep my encrypted Dropbox folders synchronized to another B2 bucket. I love the integration with Cryptomator, it makes having encrypted folder inside of Dropbox super easy. Assuming that speeds with Cyberduck and Mountain Duck are similar, I uploaded about 3TB of files the other day and felt it went pretty smooth. I let it run overnight so I'm not sure what the exact time was. I do have Cyberduck open all day while working and have my encrypted Dropbox folder mounted with Cryptomator in File Explorer and I've never had any crashing or Dropbox weirdness. Just wanted to throw that out there!

Btw, you can play your music/audiobooks directly from Dropbox with this Alexa skill: https://www.amazon.com/Voice-Activity-Ltd-Sound-Stream/dp/B08NDD6TWZ

Supported formats: mp3, m4a, wav, ogg, FLAC,...

You may find this tutorial helpful: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_gfLWlKQmwM

if you want this functionality I highly recommend the Dropsync app, it works really well to do what you want to do

I thought it was built into the Android app, but I know for a fact that Dropsync will do exactly what you're looking for: Google Play link