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How to serve HTML off my dropbox
It was great while it lasted, folks. Dropbox has ended support for serving HTML files as of today for Basic users.
Dropbox Basic (free) users: Beginning October 3, 2016, you can no longer use shared ...
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Why does Windows limit icon overlays to 15?
In my case, I only have Dropbox and TortoiseSVN. Dropbox is really
becoming annoying - after every update, I need to run a script I made
that deletes Dropbox's overlays from registry and then ...
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Dropbox system tray icon missing, not working
Lubuntu 14.04 ....I have a few machines, all the same OS. One by one Dropbox icon dissappeared.
I have struggled for months. Couldn't recover icon.
Got it now!
In terminal type ... dropbox stop &...
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How to make Dropbox "ignore" specific folders in the sync
Starting early 2020 you can actually exclude files and directories from sync.
Under Linux the command is:
attr -s com.dropbox.ignored -V 1 /path/to/somewhere
Under macOS the command is about same:
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Dropbox system tray icon missing, not working
There are some workarounds until the bug is fixed. The best one at this moment (working for Linux distros such as Xubuntu, Linux Mint, etc.) is:
dropbox stop && DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="" ...
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Access iCloud Drive via terminal
Step One, Setup a Link to the iCloud Drive Folder actual path:
First, create a link in your home directory to your iCloud drive:
cd ~
ln -s ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents iCloud
The lines above do the ...
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How to point Dropbox app to the existing Dropbox location?
I've found a way around it.
Just rename the existing Dropbox folder to 'Dropbox_' or similar. Pause Dropbox sync, set the location to the same folder, and click apply/ok. Delete that newly created ...
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Can't add folder for photo album lockscreen
I had a similar problem with Google Drive. Same error. Then it 'worked' when I put a slightly different version of the same path.
Make sure you start with C:\ and then drill down to the folder.
C:\...
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How to exclude files (not folders) from dropbox sync?
It actually is available now, currently in beta, may not work for all users.
Mac:
xattr -w com.dropbox.ignored 1 <absolute dir/filepath>
Linux
attr -s com.dropbox.ignored -V 1 <absolute ...
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How to make Dropbox "ignore" specific folders in the sync
execute in powershell:
Set-Content -Path /path/to/ignored/file -Stream com.dropbox.ignored -Value 1
see: How to set a Dropbox file to be ignored | Dropbox Help
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Why does Windows limit icon overlays to 15?
I also want to correct a misconception. Yes, there is a total 15 icons alloted, BUT It's actually 11 overlay icons available because Windows System reserves 4 for itself, so effectively it's 11 icons ...
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Cannot Zip folder that is too deep in subfolders
If this is something you will be doing frequently, it may be worth your while to create another drive, using SUBST. Open up a command prompt (I'm not sure offhand, you might need to be elevated to do ...
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Cannot Zip folder that is too deep in subfolders
Dropbox does warn that:
Even if you don’t get an error message when you name a file on your operating system, if you don’t follow the guidelines below, it could cause a problem when you try to open ...
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How to tell dropbox to ignore git files?
On Linux Dropbox has a client (dropbox) and a deamon (dropboxd).
The client has the exclude command, which you can use to exclude directories. E.g. to exclude node_modules from Dropbox you can enter ...
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How do I change the Dropbox directory on a headless GNU/Linux server?
So here's my trick:
First I remove all related folder created in my home folder
rm -rf ~/.dropbox-dist
I also remove Dropbox default folder:
rm -rf ~/Dropbox
So then I reinstalled dropbox daemon ...
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Why does Windows limit icon overlays to 15?
There's new blog post on the topic from Raymond Chen: Why is there a limit of 15 shell icon overlays?
which goes into even more details, but the short version is: the reasons are compatibility with ...
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How to force a cloud storage service to synchronise an encrypted file?
How cloud synching works
OneDrive support replied & told me they don't support encrypted files (i.e. they use date & file name to detect changes, not file contents \ hash).
I've logged a ...
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How to automate regular Google Takeout backups to cloud storage
This is a partial answer with partial automation. It may stop working in the future if Google chooses to crack down on automated access to Google Takeout. Features currently supported in this answer:...
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Dropbox created a duplicate of all files, with "._" in front of each file name
The ._ files are generated by the Macbook user's OS - used to store additional meta information about that file. Dropbox is not really creating them, they are simply being copied from the Macbook user'...
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Which Dropbox icon is for which Icon Overlay Identifier name?
The main icons are as Danny A say. The others are pairs of the main ones for locked files. The full list is:
Synced! - (green)
Sync in progress (blue)
Locked: Synced! (green + lock)
Locked: Sync in ...
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How to make Dropbox "ignore" specific folders in the sync
Copy those folders to another location which isn't synced with Dropbox.
Use selective sync to unsync the original folders (Dropbox will delete them).
Copy the backed up folders to the original ...
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Mounting (or linking to) an NTFS SD card in “Bash on Ubuntu on Windows”
Summary
In the latest Windows Insider build [16176], the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) now allows you to manually mount Windows drives using the DrvFs file system. Previously, WSL would ...
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How do I change the Dropbox directory on a headless GNU/Linux server?
This is a real shortcoming of the Linux application. In the older versions you could modify the settings file. In the most recent version it appears the only solution is to change the $HOME variable ...
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How to automate regular Google Takeout backups to cloud storage
Google Takeout lets you schedule exports every two months, so six a year
and up to one year.
You can choose to have the file added to a cloud drive or have
a download link emailed (downloads are kept ...
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How to exclude files (not folders) from dropbox sync?
Since Dropbox staff made it clear that it will NOT implement a selective file/folder sync, the user will have to implement this manually. Instead of using symbolic link, you can use a program like ...
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Pausing / resuming Dropbox from the command line (Windows)
It appears that Dropbox on Windows does not offer command line options to pause and resume.
What I found effective is to actually suspend the Dropbox process. One way to do that is to use ...
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How to get the URL of Dropbox file from command line?
Dropbox recently added the ability to create a share link (not just puburl) from command line as well as other new CLI features. For me this is great news. I discovered today that Thunar Dropbox ...
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"Input/output errors" using encfs folder inside Dropbox folder
I have the exact same problem, it also just started a couple of weeks ago. Just to make this more complete:
Moving files out & in again does fix the symptoms
All my machines are Ubuntu, so it can'...
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Dropbox system tray icon missing, not working
The solution for Lubuntu 17.04 is (assuming that you have downloaded a .deb file):
1) Make a copy of Dropbox autostart file:
cp ~/.config/autostart/dropbox.desktop ~/.config/autostart/...
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