Meet The New Dropbox Desktop App(dropbox.com)
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Meet The New Dropbox Desktop App
https://www.dropbox.com/features/new
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I just installed it on a new iMac today and gave it Accessibility access. Why should I not have?
You just gave them the ability to control other apps, ch age the ui if other apps, and do whatever you could with keyboard and mouse. Personally I don’t trust a third part with that kind of insecure unconstrained capability.
Dropbox used to surreptitiously stick itself on that list without asking, but Apple forced them to request explicitly. I think that was underhanded of DB and I don’t trust them.
Dropbox used to surreptitiously stick itself on that list without asking, but Apple forced them to request explicitly. I think that was underhanded of DB and I don’t trust them.
My boss is using Dropbox for business-related and private stuff and is looking for a comfortable way to encrypt the synced data on his machine. The best thing I came up with was a VeraCrypt image for sensitive data, which he could mount when needed. That could be problematic when he wants to access it on mobile, though.
Does anyone know of a more accessible way that could solve this?
Does anyone know of a more accessible way that could solve this?
He could try Cryptomator (https://cryptomator.org) which has iOS and Android Apps and can sync over Dropbox.
The same service is also available trough Cyberduck and Mountain Duck (https://cyberduck.io/cryptomator/).
The same service is also available trough Cyberduck and Mountain Duck (https://cyberduck.io/cryptomator/).
Cryptomator looks perfect, thank you so much!
I just saw the announcement and don't really understand what they are trying to do? I just need something that synchronizes my files across all my devices. Am I missing something?
A few stories down, dropbox relaunching as an enterprise collaboration
Has anyone tried it yet? Is it just yet another electron app? For something that's just syncing files for me, I'm not sure if I want a heavy UI running constantly.
I don't want another social network or collaboration platform, I just wants something that synchronizes files across machines :/
iCloud Files, OneDrive, Google Drive, SyncThing
SyncThing, being solid and open source (and not beholden to commercial interests) would be my suggestion.
SyncThing, being solid and open source (and not beholden to commercial interests) would be my suggestion.
I don’t know syncthing, but the other 3 I’m pretty sure are collaboration platforms too.
Smells like another desperate attempt to drum up users by adding something their core die-hard userbase neither wants nor asked for
I just installed the DB client on a new Mac and it is very aggressive about trying to trick me into enabling Accessibility access (i.e. full control of the machine) and ghost files (ones that get faulted in when you read them) -- which I'd enable if they could still be indexed by Spotlight, a feature the old Sherlock had.