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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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- Jane
Dropbox Staff
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.
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.
- Jane
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.
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.
Yeah seems like.
Although I am pretty sure they aren't using windows server or mac servers nor any server which is not Linux Kernel based so they are sucks to not support the very system they are relying on.
Also it is FALSE ADVERTISEMENT as Hypersphere said it right:
Nevertheless, I do agree that if a given application, such as Dropbox, is going to claim cross-platform support for Linux, MacOS, and Windows, ideally the application ought to have the same features across all supported platforms.
- Welcome to the Dropbox community; no one cares for linux users.
Hypersphere, I partially agree with You. Just one clarification - RHEL use much older versions than Ubuntu and Fedora! So would be no problem to transfer application from RHEL to Fedora for example, which isn't true in opposite direction. Anyway to support 'SmartSync', FUSE availability is enough, which is true in all cases (or at least could be added very easy).
One reason I think of linux not being a single OS is when I attempt to install and run software that is supported for RHEL or a clone such as CentOS on a Ubuntu-based distro such as Linux Mint. Various required libraries from RHEL do not have direct counterparts in Ubuntu, and it can be very difficult to gather the required files to get the RHEL-supported application to run on Ubuntu.
In my own case, I do not have a problem with Dropbox, because I do not use SmartSync. I am just glad that there is basic linux support. All too often with various applications, there is support for Windows and perhaps MacOS, but linux support is completely absent.
Nevertheless, I do agree that if a given application, such as Dropbox, is going to claim cross-platform support for Linux, MacOS, and Windows, ideally the application ought to have the same features across all supported platforms.
