When will online-only files work on Linux?

Same here: As a business advanced admin I can not currently deploy DB in a manner that helps us on linux. Having about 2TB of data available and shared forces me to support people while fiddeling around with selective sync on-per-user basis and myself for every request or work with the inefficient web interface.

For now the only thing working is to rely on nearly unmaintained OSS FUSE implementations or fiddle around with rclone/user services.

I know linux can be a hassle on the UI side, but please at least provide a fully featured service that is configurable through files/service.d or whatever. there is still no way to create transfers, share files with advanced features (like passwords) and all that "newer" stuff. No paper integration into the client, notifications not working. Same goes for multiple accounts.

Some kind of feature parity would be really nice. Right now its just a website with a sync client that does the bare minimum to exist.

I switched to another cloud solution for two reasons: the lack of smart sync on the Linux and the increase in the price (and  giving me 2 TB of storage, which I don't need)

(Just realised my last comment didn't show up. Hmm...)

joeytwiddle If you have a glance at the nautilus-dropbox project you'd realise it's not quite feasible to add this functionality to it. This project is basically a filesystem watcher purely in the user space and AFAIK there is no good way to 'trick' your system to show some files that don't really exist then download them on demand. Smart Sync (previously Project Infinite) works around this issue by offering a proprietary kernel module.

The best open-source alternative right now is probably Rclone. It hasn't got this feature right now, and I doubt whether such kinds of vendor-specific features will ever be their priority.

And of course the Dropbox API specifications are public and I won't be surprised if someone capable can write a new client in a few hundred hours. But anyone who does this always risks wasting tons of time on a project only to be replaced by an official one that Dropbox can roll out at any time. Not to mention that Dropbox has already got it working in macOS which is essentially BSD so it should be much easier to port it to Linux compared with starting one from scratch.

This has been ongoing for 2 years? 

2 years we have been paying for this feature and it is not available?

Please advise on the progress of this? When will Smart Sync be available?

Hi. Please advise the plans for better support for Linux. Paying customers are pleading for it. Thank you.

Goog morning.

Another paying customer needing support for smart sync in Linux (Ubuntu / Elementary). Information about wether the company has plans to implement this feature or not should be nice to make a decission.

Thank you

+1 for this feature request. I have been a paying Dropbox customer for years and have recently switched to Linux. The Dropbox user experience on Linux is 3rd class compared to Mac and Windows. Support for SmartSync is the number one thing I'm missing.

We're Linux users, so perhaps we can add the features we want to their source code: https://github.com/dropbox/nautilus-dropbox

Or if that's too difficult, we can use an alternative open source product.

Linux Users are better than others and deserve this implemented before than others :P

pls immeplent smart sync for linux. Linux is more stable than Windows. Why linux users is not treated the same as other users?