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Make offline files visible in the android filesystem
I think you should make files stored offline on Android available in the file system.
As it is now, the dropbox files marked as 'available offline' are hidden from the rest of the operating sys...
Jay Stop saying that. It is simply not true. There are several apps out there, on Google play, with better star rating than Dropbox app, that do exactly that, which I bought and use to sync up files. "offline files can only be stored in a Cache folder" cannot be true as MULTIPLE software apps do this, and only one is needed to prove you wrong.
27,377 people have vouched for ONE of the sync solutions available. Another has 38,174. And all of them on the first page that I checked have a better rating than Dropbox's own solution, hovering between 4.6 and 4.8 with DB's own at 4.2.
And may I say, it's well deserved. DB has positioned itself as the premium and it's so warm and fuzzy in its throne that it doesn't even consider adding features that everyone else has. Even the reviewers recommend using a good explorer with Dropbox functionality in place of the original app. I don't understand how a solo developer using APIs that DB made outpaces a 2500 employees corporation.
simpson b. Please share what apps you've found that have this functionality, I'd like to know my options.
I don't know what DB's policy on this is, some of the products that sync files also sync other cloud providers, like google, microsoft, mega, etc. Some are per-service and you can buy your own, some are one-size-fits-all. I don't want to advertise competition here. Especially since I am a paying customer of DB.
Just go to the Google store and type in "dropbox sync" and the results show 8 sync solutions from the top 12 or so results. I use the top rated one, I believe made by MetaCtrl. But I encourage you to look at the results as several apps out there work with dropbox and are way better. There's media players that work with remote media, password managers that use DB as a storage, there's decent backup apps.
Basically everything that we keep asking DB to do and won't. For example, the MetaCtrl software allows folder pairs and sync direction (as in, only sync this folder up and never down) to cut down on the risk of having 15 devices all have the same files and of one malfunctions or is tampered with they all crash. It's already implemented with camera roll sync in DB, camera roll is write only for DB so you can delete local images.
I know I'm giving you a roundabout answer to a point blank question but honestly there's so much to discover around DB that I feel everyone should at least look. Just read the description and look at the screenshots. It will be a well spent 10 minutes.
