New (8/17) - Highly Experimental Build - 0.7.4

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New (8/17) - Highly Experimental Build - 0.7.4

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Started 6 months ago by Rian H.
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Rian H.
Dropboxer
Posts: 234

こんにちは私の友人！

Hi everyone. If you like being on the bleeding edge of Dropbox software, this build is for you. The flagship feature of this build is LAN Sync. This means that other dropboxes and other members of your shared folders on your local network will download directly from you instead of from our servers, this makes downloading very very fast and more friendly to the public internet. :) We have also made innumerable memory and performance improvements for users who have particularly large Dropboxes. Since this build is relatively experimental, we'd appreciate all bug reports! Have fun!

0.7.4:
- Fixes to a couple issues which may have caused p2p problems
- Potential fix to Windows x64 crashes (let us know if it helps!)
- Fixes to the OS X toolbar issues (i.e. menu appears on mouse down now, image doesn't move on depress, etc.)
- Fixed regressions in 'Recently Changed' menu
- Other stability fixes

0.7.3:
- Files should download promptly now, if you were having very slow downloads.
- Context menu / bubble links are now working again.
- More accurate download/upload status.
- Fixed case where Linux machines would commit incorrect deletes.
- Fixed erroneous 'dropbang' error messages
- Lots of other minor fixes.

0.7.2:
- First public LAN Sync build
- New Dropbox toolbar buttons integrated into Explorer on Windows XP and Finder on Tiger/Leopard
- Many, many, many memory and performance improvements.

Windows: http://dl-web.getdropbox.com/u/17/Dropbox%200.7.4.exe
Mac OS X: http://dl-web.getdropbox.com/u/17/Dropbox%200.7.4.dmg
Linux x86_64: http://dl-web.getdropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-0.7.4.tar.gz
Linux x86: http://dl-web.getdropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86-0.7.4.tar.gz

For an error free install on Linux, first make sure Dropbox is stopped by choosing "Stop Dropbox" from the tray icon menu. Then run the following commands in your home directory:

$ rm -r .dropbox-dist/
$ tar xzf dropbox-lnx.x86-0.7.4.tar.gz # or x86_64

Then just start Dropbox as you normally would!

edit: to reiterate, this build is indeed quite experimental :). if it's important that your dropbox is stable/reliable, I'd strongly recommend running the release candidate build: http://forums.getdropbox.com/topic.php?id=11238&replies=39

we'll be releasing builds quickly over the next couple weeks to resolve bugs.

Posted 6 months ago #
Ran C.
Member
Posts: 18

First one!
Works great!

Posted 6 months ago #
Crystal T.
Member
Posts: 1

Wow thanks. Super useful with multiple computers in the same household.

Posted 6 months ago #
MASA -.
Member
Posts: 113

What's "New Dropbox toolbars integrated into Windows XP and Tiger/Leopard"?

Posted 6 months ago #
Fred T.
Member
Posts: 9

Awesome, gonna give this a try this weekend :)

Posted 6 months ago #
(``-_-´´) B.
Member
Posts: 49

downloading

Posted 6 months ago #
Tim M.
Member
Posts: 2

Thanks, I'll bite and try it out. :)

Posted 6 months ago #
Discovery F.
Member
Posts: 1

Awesome!

Posted 6 months ago #
Voyagerfan5761
Member
Posts: 91

w00t! Can't wait for the 0.7.x series to become official and for Dale H. to package it up into DropboxPortable.

I'd probably test if I had actual computers to install on, but since my laptop's broken I guess I can't.

Posted 6 months ago #
Dusten B.
Member
Posts: 168

Seems to works well on Ubuntu Jaunty - you guys rock!

Posted 6 months ago #
Karl F.
Member
Posts: 2

Consider this downloaded!

Posted 6 months ago #
Diego A.
Member
Posts: 1

installed, thanks!

Posted 6 months ago #
Derrick B.
Member
Posts: 1

Whoa, this is going to be a doosey of a good time.

Posted 6 months ago #
lee m.
Member
Posts: 5

wewt!

Posted 6 months ago #
Andrey K.
Member
Posts: 1

Thanks!

Posted 6 months ago #
Luis N.
Member
Posts: 2

Uh Uh... Amazing feature for me since I use dropbox mostly to sync between my laptop and my home computer, now it'll go a lot faster when I'm at home! :D

Thanks for the amazing work you guys!

Posted 6 months ago #
xavier m.
Member
Posts: 5

You know what you guys seriously need to add? The ability to setup your own server and sync dropbox with it. For instance we pay for the server package of your software, and then we point our dropbox client installs at that server. My company loves the idea of dropbox, but I can't talk them into hosting our files anywhere other than our own server due to security risk.

Nice feature that you did add though.

Posted 6 months ago #
Chen S.
Member
Posts: 1396

Question about the P2P sync, how does it find peers?

For example, I don't have a home network and both my computers are connected by wireless with AP Isolation (intentionally), will the P2P sync work in this situation?

What about setups which don't have a home network but are on the same router (without AP Isolation)? Would it work for that?

Or do you actually need to have networked computers to take advantage of the P2P sync?

Posted 6 months ago #
Alvaro F.
Member
Posts: 1

Installed, first of all: I love the new menu, because display everything in the screen. Good!

Posted 6 months ago #
Olivier B.
Member
Posts: 52

Wow, I'll test that right now...
Thanks !

Posted 6 months ago #
Ramon Antonio P.
Member
Posts: 5

Missing KDE

Posted 6 months ago #
Oliver F.
Member
Posts: 4

For me, sync from Ubuntu to WinXP SP3 works, but not the other way round... My Jaunty simply downloads the file from server.

Posted 6 months ago #
Dave F.
Pro User
Posts: 3

In response to Chen S.

The P2P lan sync probably works just like any other NAT technology. Basically what it would do is check to see if two computers are connecting from the same public IP address. If they are, then it is a good bet that they can talk to each other directly (ie they are going through a common router/modem). The software then asks them for their private IP's and checks to see if they are in the same subnet/IP range (ie, you could be running two networks, 192.168.0 and 192.168.1). If they are on the same subnet/IP range (or the different subnets can route to each other) then it instructs them to talk to each other instead of the Dropbox server.

That is the basis behind alot of LAN detecting P2P technologies, however Dropbox might use something different. Feel free to correct me.

Basically, if the two computers can connect to each other normally (ie Windows File Sharing/Gaming etc) then you will be sweet.

BTW - Installed fine on both my Mac and Windows 7 machines. Excellent work guys. Just a note that I had to kill the running processes on both Windows and Mac to get it installed.

EDIT: Just moved a large file into my Dropbox on my Mac and checked my Windows PC ... downloading at 10mb/s :) Nice work!

Posted 6 months ago #
Maxim T.
Member
Posts: 1

No Snow Leaopard support..

Posted 6 months ago #
Joel M.
Member
Posts: 2

No word on API availability yet? Can you provide access to the private beta to interested users?

Posted 6 months ago #
Rian H.
Dropboxer
Posts: 234

hey maxim, this build does support snow leopard. what problems are you having?

Posted 6 months ago #
Juan Pablo P.
Member
Posts: 1

The Snow Leopard support is in 64bits?

Posted 6 months ago #
Dusten B.
Member
Posts: 168

@Oliver F.

I just set a 700MB file from Ubuntu to a XP machine in about 3 minutes. I then sent another 700MB file from XP to Ubuntu in roughly the same time.

Again, Dropbox rocks!

Posted 6 months ago #
Andrew C.
Pro User
Posts: 1

Working lovely on osx 10.5.7 - thanks

Posted 6 months ago #
Chen S.
Member
Posts: 1396

The sync icons are jagged:

http://www.imgdash.com/uploads/1dd0e_1.png
http://www.imgdash.com/uploads/d6da7_2.png

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