To their credit, Dropbox have immediately refunded the upgrade fee without any question, returning the account to it's free status without any data loss and I do not hesitate in continuing to recommend the usefulness of Dropbox for cloud storage. In other ways Dropbox integrates extremely well with Ubuntu and it is a shame that the new and more able features are not available but hopefully, this question will assist any other user thinking along the lines of upgrading their account to Personal (Plus) or Professional.

I apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause. There are some things that it is not possible to use when using the If I understand correctly, you would like to be able to use Smart Sync In spite of information initially to the contrary when upgrading the Dropbox Personal (free) account to Personal (Plus) the Smart Sync feature is not available for Linux (and thus Ubuntu). These packages will always install the latest Version of this application does not change as frequently as the mainĭropbox application. Note: these packages install an open-source helper application. Is there wisdom in installing this deb package using this resource and what will happen to the existing installation? deb for Ubuntu from Dropbox but it is not clear from the description whether this is a more up to date version than the one already installed (which will provide the functionability required). Will this version provide Smart Sync or is there another way of implementing this feature?įurther research shows that there is a downloadable. In synaptic it shows that Python 3 version is available: The difference between the two options is simply that with Selective, files/folders are not shown in the local synced Dropbox folder but with Smart Sync, a (best described as) token is placed in the local folder from which the file in the cloud can be opened making the whole process seamless. The current version of Dropbox from the Ubuntu Software Center installed is:Ĭonfirmed by Synaptic (although the app itself suggests v102.4.431 on 18.04 LTS) but this version does not provide the option to make use of Smart Sync, only Selective Sync. I have upgraded Dropbox (Personal) to Dropbox (Personal Plus) which provides 2TB of (paid) cloud storage.Ĭlearly, with that amount of potential storage, syncing to the local drive will be an issue but Dropbox provides a solution with Smart Sync.

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