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.

cd ~
rmdir Documents
ln -s Dropbox/Documents Documents

mkdir -p ~/Dropbox/Config/
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.

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

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

mv ~/.remmina ~/Dropbox/Config/Remmina
ln -sf ~/Dropbox/Config/Remmina ~/.remmina

Stop the client

rm -rf ~/.dropbox-dist

Restart the client

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