Dropbox hits 1.0
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My machines have different storage sizes and yes I do want to sync my 65GB of MP3s between some of them -- but not all.
What is an appropriate amount of music in your mind?
I have several well-defined Pandora stations. I listen to some other sources as well (WWOZ, bassdrive.com, etc).
I used to argue for hosting my own email, now I don't even "host" my own music.
* that one has a stable high-speed Internet connection.
* that one lives in a country where Pandora and other such services work.
* that the music one listens to can actually be found on Pandora and friends.
* for radio stations, that one likes or is ambivalent to not being in full control of the music one listens to.
* that one likes the web interface these services provide. I don't use a web interface for my e-mail, and I prefer foobar2000 for my music.
I have 40 GB of music (none of which is lossless, so there's a lot of it), a lot of which is relatively obscure (e.g. fewer than 500,000 plays for the artist on last.fm), and I don't see myself getting rid of any of it any time soon.
If everyone starts doing "version marketing", this marketing value will likely eventually erode.
I knew of one company that released their products as v3.0 solely for marketing reasons. I wouldn't stoop to that level, but I have realized that by adding new features as minor version releases, I've lost money that I could have made by rolling them into a #.0 release and charging upgrade fees.
Having to lose 60GB to cache for a 5GB dropbox folder is pretty insane.
For most people it already works great, why rock the boat?
For others, let them control the updates... These are our files, after all!
I guess auto-updated was introduced in the betas?
As for my linux ones, don't know. I can't figure out how to get the version string from them.
I grab debs directly from their repo, but it's still on 0.7.110. Not that it matters for me.
$ dropbox stop
$ rm -rf ~/.dropbox-dist
$ dropbox start -iThe game is beautifully done. I'd say that I'm a huge fanboy, even to the effect that most of the servers I'm maintaining are named after some parts and characters of the game :-)
One of the greatest RPGs of all time, in my opinion.
(Unless they made it a paid only feature I suppose)
Linux x86_64: http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-1.0.10.tar...
Linux x86: http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86-1.0.10.tar.gz
2. rm -fr ~/.dropbox-dist
3. Start Dropbox
If you don't have 1.0.10 for Linux ready for public consumption, don't advertise it. If it is ready for public consumption, don't hide the download in a forum posting.
$ dropbox stop
$ rm -rf ~/.dropbox-dist
$ dropbox start -iHow can this be solved?
This is pretty much how Dropbox is intended to use so it might be hard to avoid. You can look into selective sync to choose which files get shared to which computers.
Something to think about it for next version of Dropbox.
ln -s [path to windows directory] ~/Dropbox
Not that I object to them providing bigger - I certain see no harm for them to do so.
Ohh, and S3 is way to focuses on utility storage for businesses to be used well for consumers.
Oh and my .vimrc is about 3gb now too.
(they just bumped the thread count from 16 to 18 for me in 1.0)
In what sense are you using the word 'should'?
Technically, if FireFox or Evernote holds it's files "open" or "in use" then it doesn't make sense for other programs to try to use them or to act as if they are going to be in any predictable state.
If you mean should in the sense that the computer industry should have solved this problem, then it is solved for some classes of program - always on database servers still need backups, so you instruct them to put the database in a consistent state, take a copy, and then instruct them to carry on. Previously, you would shut them down, take a backup, then restart them.
But to use that solution, both the database and the backup system have to be extended to support this, and to have it on a normal user system, every program would have to have a way to accept that kind of instruction from outside, and things like Evernote and FireFox haven't been designed with that in mind.
There could have been an easy way, except there wasn't one built in historically and now it's not easy to add one, so there isn't an easy way and wont be in the near future, even though it would be nice if there was. Your best hope is a FireFox plugin and an Evernote update if enough people ask them.