Dropbox

[waywaaaard]

Hey is anybody else using DropBox? It's a pretty cool service. Basically it is a folder on your pc that is synced online like a online hard drive (in the amazon s3 cloud). You can share folders with other people so everyone has the newest files on their pc.
I am using that with my fellow students so we have all project work files (not all via git or svn) shared. Like scripts of lectures etc. And of course I am sharing with my friends. Much easier to share well music, movies w/e. And you only have to upload it once. If you can sign up for free and get 2GB. But via reflinks and other things you can get up to 8GB on free storage. You can of course access all of your files via the web-interface what comes in pretty handy for me when I am not at my own computer.

It's available for win/mac/linux

Features: https://www.dropbox.com/features

Btw with the new version you can something called shareable link. So you can make a single file or a folder accessible via the web like all those hosters, but for all files.


Here a example folder of my fellow student and me. Project for OS-Programming(Process communication, semaphores, shared memory)

dropboxexample.png

In my opinion better than wuala. Of course wuala has got a different approach with storing the files like p2p with parity files.

This is my reflink - need to get more space^^
https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTYxMzkyNjQ5

[.:iSpawn:.]

could be used as a demo submit for CJ frag vid?

[Drofder2004]

What access rights does it give the users. I take it "open/read" only?

I was once interested in setting up a SVN for the mod, does this have the same thing, or is it purely file uplaod>?

[Azabael]

Seems to be a nice program with useful features.

[|Master|]

Seems to be a nice program with useful features.

Yes Very good.

[waywaaaard]

What access rights does it give the users. I take it "open/read" only?

I was once interested in setting up a SVN for the mod, does this have the same thing, or is it purely file uplaod>?

It's file upload and doesn't have merge or other features you would await. The good thing is that you can restore the files somebody deleted up to 30days.

The user rights will come shortly. At the moment if you share a folder everyone can edit, therefore the restore options comes in handy.

Well for SVN you need a server or a service And I guess you don't want to make the mod open source so things like github are out of consideration.

[Drofder2004]

Well for SVN you need a server or a service And I guess you don't want to make the mod open source so things like github are out of consideration.

There are a few private SVN hosts out there for free, but the option to merge file upload and SVN capabilities into one website would've been lovely.

The site is pretty good, but my needs are slim for things like that.

When/if the site introduces the user permissions and (if not already existing) a filter for which files can be uploaded where, it could be a good idea for demos and the like.

[waywaaaard]

if anybody needs here i made a app for google chrome

manifest.json

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{
  "name": "Dropbox",
  "version": "1",
  "icons": {
    "128": "128.png",
    "24": "24.png",
    "32": "32.png",
    "48": "48.png"
  },
  "app": {
    "urls": [
      "*://www.dropbox.com/"
    ],
    "browse_urls": [
      "https://www.dropbox.com/"
    ],
    "launch": {
      "web_url": "https://www.dropbox.com/"
    }
  }
}

icons and file in the attachment - just load it as an extracted addon