Dropbox

http://www.dropbox.com

Dropbox is a cross-platform Cloud Storage and Synchronization tool.

• Windows
• Linux
• Android

These are notes on how I use Dropbox with Linux (Gnome) and may or may not be useful to others.

To set up another PC where Dropbox is already installed, and configuration files are already synchronized, just run the ln -sf … command line.

1. Stop the Dropbox client.

2. rm -rf ~/.dropbox-dist

3. Restart the Dropbox client.

mv ~/.ssh ~/Dropbox/Config/SSH

rm -rf ~/.ssh
ln -s ~/Dropbox/Config/SSH ~/.ssh

mv ~/Documents/* ~/Dropbox/Documents/

The following command will delete all your documents not in the Dropbox folder!

rm -rf ~/Documents
ln -s ~/Dropbox/Documents ~/Documents

mkdir -p ~/Dropbox/Config/Fonts

ln -s ~/Dropbox/Config/Fonts ~/.fonts

Just drop your font files (usually .ttf files) into the new folder.

mv ~/.local/share/gnote ~/Dropbox/Config/

ln -sf ~/Dropbox/Config/gnote ~/.local/share/
kill -9 `pidof gnote`	# Reload

It doesn't work properly to just sync the Notes folder, so we sync the synchronization folder instead.

mkdir -p ~/Dropbox/Notes

Configure Tomboy synchronization to Local Folder ~/Dropbox/Notes.

Close Pidgin first.

Passwords are saved in Gnome Keyring. You'll have to enter the passwords manually (for now).

mv ~/.purple ~/Dropbox/Config/Pidgin

rm -rf ~/.purple                         # this deletes your existing config if it exists!
ln -s ~/Dropbox/Config/Pidgin ~/.purple

If you have problems after making these mods, reboot your PC and try Empathy again.

Don't bother with Empathy if you have Pidgin installed.

Passwords are saved in Gnome Keyring. You'll have to enter the passwords manually (for now).

mv ~/.config/Empathy ~/Dropbox/Config/
mv ~/.mission-control/accounts/accounts.cfg ~/Dropbox/Config/Empathy/

rm -rf ~/.config/Empathy
rm -rf ~/.mission-control/accounts/accounts.cfg
ln -s ~/Dropbox/Config/Empathy ~/.config/
ln -s ~/Dropbox/Config/Empathy/accounts.cfg ~/.mission-control/accounts/

mkdir -p ~/Dropbox/Config/Remmina
mv ~/.remmina ~/Dropbox/Config/Remmina

rm -rf ~/.remmina
ln -sf ~/Dropbox/Config/Remmina ~/.remmina

mkdir -p ~/Dropbox/Config/Thunderbird
mv ~/.thunderbird/<default-profile-folder>/prefs.js ~/Dropbox/Config/Thunderbird/

ln -sf ~/Dropbox/Config/Thunderbird/prefs.js ~/.thunderbird/<default-profile-folder>/prefs.js

1. Install as admin
2. Un-link the Dropbox account and delete Dropbox folder out of My Documents
3. Delete the Startup folder entry
4. Move the Dropbox menu folder to All Users and add permissions for Everyone (Read+List+Execute)
5. Move the Dropbox folder in Application Data to All Users and add permissions for Everyone (Read+List+Execute)
6. Once a user runs Dropbox and configures it with their own account, a Startup item will be created (which doesn't work?) as well as a Desktop icon