question for all running snow leopard! are icon overlays working properly with this version of dropbox? have you noticed any instability with dropbox/the finder on this build?
we know that the context menu doesn't work yet, but should have a release mid-week that works :-)
@Arash F. : the icon overlays is working fine for me (10.6 build 10A432 / 0.7.3), except when the Finder is in Coverflow mode (no icon overlay). I'm downloading files from my Dropbox to my MBP, and it seems to download them from the Internet (at a 360 KB/sec speed) although I have a Mac mini (10.5.8/0.7.3) on the same network.
It may be interesting if the download indicator stated if the files are downloaded from the Internet or from the LAN.
Bug in 0.7.3 on Windows Vista — deleted files in Dropbox menu (Recently Changed Files) not grayed out (inactive), so, I can click on it, and Dropbox open my profile folder.
It may be interesting if the download indicator stated if the files are downloaded from the Internet or from the LAN.
Right. Blue when internet sync, green when it LAN sync, for example.
@IT D. I agree, because i didn't know if it was syncing over my lan (WIFI) or over the internet
build 0.7.3 on my dell xps m1530 running vista seems to be working good.
uses a lot of my cpu, upwards of 50 percent, but this seems to be the case even with the earlier versions.
my cpu is an up to date core 2 duo.
seems to be always saying that it is indexing 1 file and saving 1 file.
sometimes it tells me the speed of the upload, sometimes it doesn't when i hover my pointer over the icon in the systray.
Clearly there is a big privacy issue: if I'm transfering data to someone on the same lan as I am, this means it's very likely he has the same files.
I have the same exact problem as Gary C.
When I open a word document (in Office 2007; .doc file) in a Dropbox folder, make changes to it, then save it again - I am often prompted to save it as a different file name. This wasn't happening in version .0.6.x series.
MS Word 2007, Win 7 x64 build 7100.
@Kawarma, I think only Dropboxes linked to the same account sync with each other over the LAN. That being said, I'm not sure that's been 100% specified so I'd be interested in hearing if that were the case.
Paul B.
Dropboxer
Posts: 20
Kawarma: Only dropbox instances which have shared folders use LANSync, and only for those shared folders. Dropbox will never get data from peers you don't share that data with, since that would reveal which data you have or are looking for. Also all LANSync data is encrypted and readable only by the peers that participate in that specific share.
I agree there's some remaining sidechannel potential - e.g. putting something into a share you have with another user that is on the same lan, to test if that user has this file in another share. If they don't, you would expect them to download from you - unless yet someone else on the same lan has the data too. This is true btw, even if you don't use lansync: a new file would trigger a download from our servers and you could analyze network packet data (despite the strong encryption) to see if this is what is happening. Sidechannel attacks like this are hard to deal with, because they require code to handle all cases exactly the same way - which is at odds with doing the case differentiation in the first place and would lead to huge inefficiencies.
We most likely won't be able to deal with all of these corner-cases in the most paranoid way, since, for example, redownloading huge chunks of data that you already have is not behavior that is attractive to a majority of our users. We'll offer you an option to disable LANSync, should you need to do so, but from our own analysis of the security model we think LANsync is solid.
I'm having problems with this build in XP, I get random explorer errors which I think have to do with the explorer bar button. When I try to remove the button it reappears. I saw one other person has the same problem.
hey guys,
we just posted a new build with several bug fixes. let us know how it goes!
hey guys,
we just posted a new build with several bug fixes. let us know how it goes!
Installed it on Windows Vista, files not in Program Files (again, same as 0.7.3), why?
%AppData%\Roaming\Dropbox\bin
Recently Changed Files - fixed, confirmed.
When just installed and Dropbox started with "Initializing", in context menu i see something like "Link dropbox with account" (my computer was already linked), but after it done ("All files up to date") it's linked with my account - fine.
Andrew R.
Pro User
Posts: 2
A feature I'd love to see added is the ability to force LAN syncing. At work, we have multiple IP ranges associated with various wired and wireless networks, but they're all capable of full-bandwidth local transfer. By just checking the subnet, Dropbox assumes that my laptop on wireless is not on the same network as the desktop sitting next to it, and syncs through the server. I'd love to be able to force the two to sync via P2P. Even better, to force P2P transfer unless for some reason the xfer rate drops below 300 kb/s.
Christopher R.
Pro User
Posts: 1
Installed 0.7.4 on Windows Vista Home Premium x64 SP2. No issues to report so far. Client has remained running with no issues.
Previous issues with 0.7.3 (client shut down unexpectedly).
Andrew M.
Pro User
Posts: 44
So far 0.7.4 appears to be working well. It's not crashing anymore when I try to connect using my Verizon aircard (Windows 7).
I installed .0.7.4 and all is well, except when I click on the added Dropbox Finder item, it crashes the finder. the finder comes back up without the Dropbox icon on finder window. Then I relaunch the finder and it appears but each time it will crash if i select the pull down menu
Humm ??
Paul B.
Dropboxer
Posts: 20
hey everyone, check out http://forums.getdropbox.com/topic.php?id=11640&replies=1 for the new 0.7.5 highly experimental build!
so I installed this to both mine and my roommate's computers... and it's the latest, 0.7.4, and it's transferring files at about 30k/sec. Before it was around 180k/sec. Am I doing something wrong? :(
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