Comments on: Headless Dropbox

By: =!F0AA.4219.B594.355F

=!F0AA.4219.B594.355F — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:11:19 +0000

Beware of not having your Dropbox in sync between systems when doing this without changing the hostname first… It will delete everything :>

By: Cocoroto

Cocoroto — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:35:27 +0000

Er… obviously their privacy policy plays with you when they say: “BY UTILIZING THE SITE, CONTENT, FILES AND/OR SERVICES, YOU CONSENT TO ALLOW DROPBOX TO ACCESS YOUR COMPUTER TO ACCESS ANY FILES THAT ARE PLACED IN THE ‘MY DROPBOX,’ ‘DROPBOX’ FOLDERS, AND/OR ANY OTHER FOLDER WHICH YOU CHOOSE TO LINK TO DROPBOX.” It is not a joke, they are mixing Dropbox (as a service) with Dropbox as a company, throughout all their legal stuff. WTF… (sorry for ranting here, but I think other users should be concerned, and I almost rushed into using their service after reading your posts).
Cheers!

By: Cocoroto

Cocoroto — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:25:01 +0000

Jeez, the servicelooks good but I value my privacy more than its usefulness. WhyTF do they want to have access to your files? Accessing your public folder is not enough for them? Their privacy policy is the worst I have seen for a long time. It should not be used for work files at all.

By: Gaspa

Gaspa — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:06:44 +0000

bah.
It gives to me a bad feeling, at the head of the document they stated that’s open,free, and blablabla…
and at the bottom, the sentence is corrected by “dropboxd is a closed-source daemon”…
So what’s open? the interface? uh cool…

And moreover, why should I write _opensource_ interfaces (kde,terminal,and so on) based on a _closedsource_ daemon?

/me’s searching an opensource alternative.

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:13:27 +0000

Ok I understand. It would be great to be able to install DropBox onto own servers. Any idea if the DropBox guys are planning that for the future?

“We were unable to authenticate your claimed OpenID, however you can continue to post your comment without OpenID” any idea about that? OpenID provider is https://meinguter.name/

By: jdub

jdub — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:41:11 +0000

@Frank: I choose which files go up there, and it means I can more easily share stuff with other Dropbox users.

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:31:59 +0000

What about privacy? You are putting your private files on a remote server? Or am I missing something?

BTW: OpenID with meinguter.name does not seem to work here ;(

By: Filip

Filip — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:39:34 +0000

“their GNOME-like “Just Works” approach”, ahahahah, good one.

By: jdub

jdub — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:55:35 +0000

@psilva: About half an hour before I posted… Check the output of ldd on your version of dropboxd — I doubt they’ve changed the direct library dependencies, but for whatever reason, yours is attempting to dynamically load the GUI layer.

By: psilva

psilva — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:43:20 +0000

jdub: Yeah, I ran it first locally, same architecture, configured it properly, checked that it worked, then scp’ed .dropbox* to my headless box, ran it, and got that trace. So it’s definitely weird. I’m thinking that maybe they changed the lib deps in their last dropboxd revision, which I downloaded. When did you set up yours? I just tried this yesterday.