![]() If you like to upload a directory of photos and keep them online but not on your computer, just un-check the folder within the Dropbox configuration. For every computer you use with Dropbox it’s possible to configure which files you like download to each system. Full control about your files inside the “Dropbox”Īll modifications you do in your “Dropbox” getting processed, it’s not a problem to move or delete files and directories. If you click the Dropbox symbol in your status bar you get an idea how many files you need to backup or synchronize. Each directory or file inside the Dropbox folder gets a symbol, after a file is synchronized with your Dropbox backup account, the file gets a new symbol which indicates that the file is stored. ![]() Each link is unique and your photos are not indexed (according the Dropbox help section)Īdding files to your “Dropbox” folder is easy, just move/copy them and if needed create a symbolic link. Your friends doesn’t need a Dropbox account to get the access to the photo gallery, but that will not say that your photos are public. Just send them the link to your photos and they can watch them on their own computer. If you place Photos inside that folder (or sub-folders), you and your friends can view them online via a cool photo gallery. Photo gallery: Dropbox provides some “standard” folders, one of them is called “Photos”.Event list: With Dropbox you have status updates about the most important events like, how many files are transfered or if you got some free MB because one of your invitations has opened a Dropbox account.At Dropbox this is different, you get total control about your files and much more: A feature which is at SpiderOak not very comfortable and the site pretty slow. Fast and comfortable online you backup your data online, it’s quite normal that you like to access the files online too. If you work this way it’s very easy to synchronize your files between different computers. I moved the “Documents” directory from the user’s home directory into the Dropbox folder and created instead a symbolic link with the name “Documents” inside the home directory to keep all the internal links. It’s possible to use symbolic links for your folders or it’s better to place all your data directories into the “Dropbox” folder and create symbolic links for the original locations: Dropbox features (not only) for Ubuntu usersĪs mentioned before the Dropbox client is based on the Nautilus filemanager and the “Dropbox” folder is a directory where all files and directories are getting synchronized. After I did some research (again) I signed up for a new account and most of all I was surprised about the client which is based on Nautilus the filemanager for the Gnome Desktop. I remembered me why SpiderOak was my first choice, it was because this service was cheaper and I missed some features while checking Dropbox. After a few days the results was too small to continue with this service. ![]() Smaller directories with less files went through, but for the bigger file lists it doesn’t worked. With the result that not a single file was copied! Next I tried to download several directories of files from the backup location. While the demon was working, the CPU for the target machine was used permanently for 100% and after a while the demon was using more than 1Gb of memory. In the beginning it worked fine and all directories were created on my new PC. ![]() What happened during the synchronization process? I started to setup a few synchronization rules to copy files between both systems and the SpiderOak demon started his work. I don’t wanna blame SpiderOak, they offer a great support! It’s just that the service doesn’t worked for me as it should… Too much resources needed While the online backup function worked fine during the last half year, is the sync feature or better the SpiderOak client not so powerful. ![]() These days I tried to synchronize the data from my laptop with my desktop PC and I’m very disappointed about this feature provided by SpiderOak. A few month ago I wrote an article/review about online backup services, in this comparison I mentioned that my favorite is the online backup service SpiderOak. ![]()
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