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When will online-only files work on Linux?
I need to save space on my hard drive. Online-only files would be the perfect solution, but it still does not work on linux fedora.
When will we have this solution?
edugsdf wrote:
I need to save space on my hard drive. Smart Sync would be the perfect solution, but it still does not work on linux fedora.
When will we have this solution?
At the moment, Smart Sync is only available on Windows and Mac. Dropbox has made no announcement on its availability on Linux. They usually don't discuss timelines or upcoming features until they're reaady to announce them, so we likely won't know that it's coming until it's already here, assuming that it's coming at all.
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Again I see that a message is marked as solved, but it is not. It just points to the old selective folder setup where you do not see the files you have not synced. This is *not* solved.
I just read the email about the "upgrade" (paid) we are getting.
While it's nice to get 2TB instead of one I can't understand why Smart Sync is not available on Ubuntu Linux, since I'm paying the exact same amount of customers with Mac or Windows.
- Jane
Dropbox Staff
Please provide smart sync support for Linux. Nowadays there are Linux alternatives for peer-to-peer file synchronization (some even open-source) and although I prefer to pay for a service, will not do it the moment the free alternative has more features than the paid one (and no, the 2 TB forced upgrade to the paid plan is not a new feature)...
Not to mention the page https://www.dropbox.com/individual/plans-comparison does not have any mention that SmartSync is available only for some platforms.
I'd also like to chime in here. Having the Smart Sync functionality available for Linux would be awesome. It would save me a lot of time and hassles, as well as save me some drive space by being able to better control what gets synced. I have multiple devices and systems, so this would be a blessing. Please, for the love of all that's holy, make this feature available for Linux.
- Jane
The absence of this feature for a platform is not justifiable. We choose a paid plan of Dropbox because Dropbox serves all Operating system equally with a seamless synchronization but not getting a flagship feature on an OS like Linux whose userbase is a large student community is a failure of Dropbox core management which are taking these silly decisions.
This feature request should be escalated at the earliest to keep the culture of Dropbox intact!!
- Jane
Hey Jane certainly is helpfull to upvote this topic but what really matters me is that i already have voted with my money and chose Dropbox for the cross- platform compatibility. My subscription ends next year and i will vote again and i really hope dropbox product help me make my decision easy...
I use both MacOS and Ubuntu 18.04, and Smart Sync is a much better option than Selective Sync. However, it is not available in Ubuntu. Please invest some extra energy to support it on Linux OS. Thanks
