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Dropbox is a free cloud storage service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. It uses a web interface and cross-platform file syncing application to manage files in the cloud. It also features an API.

Dropbox is a free cloud storage service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. The paid services add more features and space. It uses a web interface and cross-platform file syncing application to manage files in the cloud. It also features an API for both the files and login services.

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Is there a way to tell Dropbox not to upload a certain file? (Eclipse related)

I am trying to sync a code project between two computers, one running Windows and the other running Ubuntu 12.04. I use Eclipse on both machines, but the .metadata folder produced by Eclipse is causing Eclipse to crash because of OS…
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Get Notified when a file changes on dropbox

Does dropbox have a way of notifying when a file changes i.e arrival of new uploads or a file has changed.
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removing broken names in Git (dropbox conflicted copy)

I save my repo in dropbox, and one day (see date below) it went crazy. Now I get these warning every time I try to autocomplete a branch name warning: ignoring ref with broken name refs/heads/develop (MacBook Pro's conflicted copy…
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Adding buttons to Finder toolbar?

Dropbox has the option of adding a button to the Finder toolbar. It even appears in the 'Customize Toolbar...' window.   I can't find any documentation on how this sort of thing is done.... Does anyone know how to do this, or can anyone point me…
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Programmatically Download Content from Shared Dropbox Folder Links

I'm building an application to automatically trigger a download of a Dropbox file shared with a user (shared file/folder link). This was straight forward to implement for Dropbox links to files, as is outlined here. Unfortunately this doesn't work…
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Is it possible to host a bare Git repository using Dropbox, to share code?

I realize that there are similar questions, but my question is slightly different: I'm wondering whether sharing a bare repository via a synchronized Dropbox folder on multiple computers would work for sharing code via Git? In other words: is…
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Show the permission of a indexed file in git

This is related to another question I recently asked about storing a non-bare repository in Dropbox for easy movement between computers, so it may be helpful to read that question for background. The gist is that the fileMode keeps reporting a diff…
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How to determine the Dropbox folder location programmatically?

I have a script that is intended to be run by multiple users on multiple computers, and they don't all have their Dropbox folders in their respective home directories. I'd hate to have to hard code paths in the script. I'd much rather figure out the…
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Using Dropbox API to upload a file with Android

How can I upload a File (graphic, audio and video file) with Android using the Dropbox API to Dropbox? I followed the tutorial on the Dropbox SDK Android page and could get the sample to work. But now instead of a String I want to upload an actual…
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Download Folder including Subfolder via wget from Dropbox link to Unix Server

I have a dropbox link like https://www.dropbox.com/sh/w4366ttcz6/AAB4kSz3adZ which opens the ususal dropbox site with folders and files. Is there any chance to download the complete content (tar or directly as sync) to a unix machine using wget? I…
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Using dropbox and git without conflitcts

I'm working with people using only Dropbox as version control and collaboration tool. I don't intend to change their behavior. On the other hand, I'm a git-addicted, and want to use it for my personal use. Is their anyway to have a .git directory…
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Why is putting git repositories inside of a Dropbox folder not recommended?

When creating a Git repository inside of a Dropbox folder using the GitHub application for OSX I get the following message: Putting git repositories inside of a Dropbox folder is not recommended. Are you sure you want to create a repository…
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How to configure Git for using it with Dropbox?

I have been using git for half a year or so and I don't know whether I am using git fully. First of all, I have been experimenting with dropbox and I feel that if I can incorporate it into my work flow, it would be really great since dropbox is…
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Sharing Eclipse directory on Dropbox between Windows and Mac OS X

This question was close to mine, but not quite. I have a Windows desktop and a MacBook Pro. I'd like to be able to keep my Eclipse workspace in my Dropbox folder. The problem is that many project settings change between platforms: references to…
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Dropbox differential/incremental uploads using REST API

We know that Dropbox desktop clients use a binary diff algorithm to break down all files into blocks, and only upload blocks that it doesn't already have in the cloud…
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