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?
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.
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.
Selective sync for a Folder-level solution.https://help.dropbox.com/syncing-uploads/selective-sync-overview
If your running a headless setup you can use an exclude list:https://help.dropbox.com/desktop-web/linux-commands
Hope 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 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.
Still no updates here? I'm happy to upgrade my plan but was waiting for this feature... similarly will have to start exploring elsewhere as it looks like it isn't coming.
Yep - I did just that. I just cancelled my plan a minute ago. Bye Dropbox.
Cancel if you get no service! I agree! I will do so too!
To the Guys at DropBox: You will loose your customers if you do not service them!!! It is end of April 2019 and it is still not on Linux. That is not acceptable! I am surprised how you still can look in the eyes of your PAYING customers when you knowingly doesn't give a sh*t or a flying f**k about giving proper SERVICE if it is not implemented soon I wish you go out of business, the same way you F**k over your PAYING customers.
I completely rely on Drobox to sync large numbers of files and folders among my 12 computers -- 6 running Windows and 6 running Linux (Linux Mint 19.1 Xfce 64-bit LTS, based on Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit LTS).
It turns out that I am getting by using just Selective Sync. I have actually not tried Smart Sync on any of my systems. Nevertheless, I believe that Dropbox ought to try their best to achive cross-platform parity; i.e., the feature set ought to be the same for Linux, Mac, and Windows.
In fairness, however, it is difficult to produce products for "linux", because linux is not a single OS. There are a number of kernel versions in use, different linux families (e.g., Debian/Ubuntu-based and RHEL-based, with at least 100 different distros, and several different desktop environments and/or window managers. In addition, there are linux-like OSs in use, such as unix and BSD.
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.
It forced me to upgrade to this plan recently. Are you telling me that feature is not available? Isnt that a bit like stealing my money?
Yeah, it is totally baaaddd businesss and marketing and totally do not give back to the Linux community from where DropBox and other companies just Abusing the Power of Linux. USE Windows Server or Mac Server or UNIX server and stop using Linux on your server level DropBox or just simple become straight with that gave you the possibility to run your business on the level you are!!!!!
Unbelievable!!!! Still no solution on this!!!!!
Recently i switched from free to paid Dropbox account just for the Linux support and now i found that smart sync not working only in Linux! This has to be fixed, but i suspect no one is paying attention...
Hi @Hypersphere,
I can't agree, that linux isn't a single OS. Linux is single OS with multiple distributions (in fact tree of distributions). Of course, like anyone OS, there are different versions. I don't know exactly why Dropbox ignore Linux support, but there are FUSE capabilities available for everyone (present day) linux distributions. Just, single code piece is enough for support. Probably Dropbox dosen't heard about FUSE:laughing:, they know only Ext4. Seems just company politics...
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.
@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).
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:
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.
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.
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!!
Hey @mechP, while I’ve now made sure to put this request to the attention of our Community manager internally in form of a question, it would definitely be helpful if you pinched this Upvote (👍) button, in order to give the thread a bit more visibility!
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
