Rclone can mount remotes to your local filesystem. mkdir -p $HOME/mymount && rclone mount dropbox:/ $HOME/mymount
, and now you can use mymount
, as any regular directory.
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Next I installed Rclone and logged in using that, but it seems to be completely command line based which is absolutely useless. There is no way I’m going to sit here typing out full directory paths and file names every time I need to access something (which is always).
I don't know what file browser you particularly like using. I haven't used Dropbox (or Mint, for that matter), but it looks like there are various file browsers that have Dropbox support out there.
If you're using the Cinnamon desktop version of Mint, it looks like the default file browser is called "nemo". Mint appears to have a package with nemo Dropbox integration called "nemo-dropbox".
Dropbox has a smart sync option in Linux.
I’m in Linux mint and installed Linux from the terminal.
In the task bar, I can right click on Dropbox and pull up the settings in there, there is a smart sync option.
"Installed Linux from the terminal" Can you expand on that a bit please?
Siri just woke up. I meant Dropbox.
I don't have an answer for you, unfortunately, but I'm just gonna say that using Dropbox as a company's primary file store is one of the signs of apocalypse or something. I'd consider quitting just for that xD
I know that's not helpful 🤷
You're quite correct - not helpful at all.
looks
Hmm. Their protocol apparently doesn't use end-to-end encryption, which doesn't sound good. Yeah, I think that if I trusted an external party to host my files, I'd want to retain control over the keys.
Is that what you were referring to, or to something else?
I was mostly being snarky, but their security is mediocre and their user experience is meh. But I'm also in software where revision control systems are A Thing™ so I'm probably biased