[HN Gopher] Maestral - open-source Dropbox client
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Maestral - open-source Dropbox client
Author : lsferreira42
Score : 45 points
Date : 2022-03-28 15:04 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (maestral.app)
(TXT) w3m dump (maestral.app)
| defensem3ch wrote:
| I've been using this for a while from Linux because my Dropbox
| folder is on an NTFS drive. It's very nice.
| torstenvl wrote:
| I use maestral on macOS and it works great. More lightweight than
| the official client, and when I do a clean reinstall it's almost
| automatic via brew.
| matthewmacleod wrote:
| Good to see this here!
|
| I started using Maestral after finding myself increasingly
| annoyed by the unfortunately shitty experience of the official
| client on the Mac (and the lack of a native ARM release at the
| time). What I really like is that I haven't ever really noticed
| it's there, which is exactly what you want from a bit of software
| like this.
|
| It's a bit unfortunate that it doesn't (or more accurately can't)
| support smart sync, which is a very nice Dropbox feature. But
| it's actually worth the sacrifice.
| eric4smith wrote:
| Good stuff.
|
| But smart sync is a deal killer. I have a few hundred gigs of
| data in Dropbox at this point and smart sync is a big savior.
|
| But this would be awesome for Linux.
| pfist wrote:
| I can't use this because I'm on Windows, but it looks cool. I
| love the idea of more fine-grained sync control with gitignore-
| style pattern matching. Neat!
| Xavdidtheshadow wrote:
| I wanted to use this, but it doesn't handle Smart Sync, a feature
| I find myself really taking advantage of. But, I'm glad this sort
| of thing exists!
| HNHatesUsers wrote:
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