Dropbox
Version: 2.0.0 ||
Release Date: 2013-03-12 ||
License: Freeware
Developer: Evenflow Inc |
App Owner: energio
Store, sync and share your files online.
Dropbox is an application that creates a special Finder folder that automatically syncs online and between your computers. It allows you to both backup files and keep them up-to-date between systems.
Required OS: not specified
Tags:
system
, sync
, file
, storage
, webservice
, share
, backup



57 Opinions
Release notes are available at https://www.dropbox.com/release_notes, which also has a handy drop down to differentiate stable from testing builds.
(1.5.30, currently atop Iusethis, for example, is a testing build. Last stable as of 9/18/12 was 1.4.17.)
When I stared using an external USB drive as my primary work drive, I felt like I had been liberated because I could work ANYWHERE.
I was pretty skeptical about Dropbox. I installed it and tinkered a little.
Without using it, it slowly dawned on me that the beauty to Dropbox is that I'm working in a local directory -- not an external drive or a network drive. It's a LOCAL directory that gets synced to the Dropbox server in the background.
Surely, since I work on Windows and Macs and Linux there's no way it'll handle all that gracefully.
You know what? It handles the differences pretty seamlessly! In fact, I was making more of a mess with Unison and my external drive while Dropbox was keeping everything sync-ed properly.
Today: no more external drive. I'm proud to support Dropbox with a paid subscription!
Version 1.0.10 was released last month with support for selective sync and support for syncing resource forks and extended attributes. The download is 20% smaller, runs faster and memory usage has been reduced by up to 50%. What's not to like? ;-)
@bonj : thanks for the tip about Cloud :)
Extremely useful. I use this to sync important files between all my computers (both OSX and Windows) and it's very fast. Whenever I''m on another computer without Dropbox installed, I can still access the files on the web. I used to use this to host images temporarily too, but now I use CloudApp for that.
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