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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.
- Rich
Super User II
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.
I was going to sign up for the Pro plan, just for Smart Sync. Yeah Selective Sync is a thing and if I don't want access to files on my desktop and then go to the web interface to get them, it works fine; but that's not the point, is it?
When Dropbox makes Smart Sync available for Linux then I'll sign up for the Pro plan.
Otherwise, I like Dropbox and I'm happy with its Linux support (and I've been a paying customer for years and years).
This posts are from 2018 January and we are in 2018 October, and I found nothing about this issue. There is something on the way or should we assume that it will not be done?
And I'm wondering the same thing about Linux support. I try to bug them every couple months and can never get any answer, not even a rough one. That's what's frustrating. If it's never going to be supported then say so and us ... PAYING ... Linux users will move on and find a different solution.
Why is this marked as SOLVED ? it is not solved. All the workaround posted is useless. I can't use SmartSync on Linux, thats it. The selective sync is an ugly patch. Produce an install for the main distros, all others are based on the main ones, it could be a .tar, a .deb a .rpm and thats it.
Ross_SDropbox Staff
Selective sync for a Folder-level solution.
https://help.dropbox.com/syncing-uploads/selective-sync-overviewIf your running a headless setup you can use an exclude list:
https://help.dropbox.com/desktop-web/linux-commandsHope this helps you.
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?
I just discovered Smart Sync for Dropbox, but I was dismayed to learn that Linux is not yet supported. Most of my computers are running Linux (Linux Mint 18.3 Xfce 64-bit), and a few of them are running Windows 10 ver 1709. I might be interested in implementing Smart Sync, but only if it is available for Linux.
Having used Dropbox personally, and lately through a business plan where I enjoyed the fact that it had Smart Sync which I love using on the Windows desktop. Due to a change in tooling at work, I signed up for a personal account - and very much purposefully chose a plan that had Smart Sync included, since the feature is vital to my workflow. So, when I went to install it on some of my Linux computers, I was a bit flabbergasted to find it is still not available in the Linux client.
I just want to put forward, thatwe are paying customers here, and some of us absolutely use Linux on the desktop (and server) every day, and rely on this functionality. I certainly hope the Dropbox team take us seriously and make this feature a priority.
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
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
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
- Registered just to give this an upvote. Got a paid plan for three reasons: - more space than the free one - more than 3 machines (I got already several before this restriction came, so could not get any additional box without disconnecting several others) - smart sync. The last point and my laziness (I already used Dropbox free) were the reasons for choosing Dropbox over Google. Now found that smart sync does not work on half of the machines. Once my subscription expires (unfortunately I got an annual plan) I'll see if I stay here or move to google - no decent linux support I'll have there as well, but at least they don't advertise cross-platform and have more diverse options for space.
