Discussions
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The syncing on my headless Linux setup is quite slow.
I am running Dropbox under Arch Linux on a Hetzner server in a datacenter in Finland. Ocasionally I do data processing on the server because it's a fast machine. Sometimes uploads of these changes to Dropbox get stuck. Three days ago, the upload of a single 3.5 MB file took more than half an hour. There was almost no load…
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Viewing text file without extension in Android app?
I have thousands of text files with notes that I would like to be able to view on my Android phone. Most of them don't have an extension. Many of them are simply called README. As far as I understand it, the Dropbox App, being rather basic, is still lacking the functionality to view these files. However, there is the…
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dbx-tools (command line tools for Linux)
Don’t know where else to share this, but I wrote a set of scripts for interfacing with Dropbox via the command line: github.com/feklee/dbx-tools dbx-tools depends on Dropbox’s own tool dbxcli. At the moment, you can download and upload files and directories (recursively), and you can perform deletions. Newly implemented is…
