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[+Mephistopheles]

What's new in Dropbox 1.4.0:

• Importing of photos from cameras, phones, and SD cards.
  
• Batch upload/download of files.

View: Release notes
Link: Dropbox blog post about the new release
Download:

• Dropbox 1.4.0 for Windows
  
• Dropbox 1.4.0 for OS X
  
• Dropbox 1.4.0 for Linux x86
  
• Dropbox 1.4.0 for Linux x64

[nyolc8]

Is the mac client supposed to update itself automatically? Because I have v1.2.52 and it's not updating itself, (tried to restart it).

[+CPressland]

nyolc8, on 27 April 2012 - 08:09, said:

Is the mac client supposed to update itself automatically? Because I have v1.2.52 and it's not updating itself, (tried to restart it).

They've probably not pushed it to the update servers yet.

[S.P]

They have been workig pretty hard to push this official update. Beta releases were at least once a week.

Got to say I've never had an issue with the beta versions... Can't wait to see what else they up their sleeves.

[ZakO]

Mephistopheles, on 27 April 2012 - 07:49, said:

• Batch upload/download of files.

Does this fix slowness if you have lots of little files? Before I stopped using dropbox I had 2.5GB of files in it, most were < 100KB and the initial sync when adding a new device took over 36 hours (avg speed < 10KB/s).

[primexx]

ZakO, on 27 April 2012 - 10:12, said:

Does this fix slowness if you have lots of little files? Before I stopped using dropbox I had 2.5GB of files in it, most were < 100KB and the initial sync when adding a new device took over 36 hours (avg speed < 10KB/s).

that's the idea. you'll have to try it out to see how well it works for you.

[+littleneutrino]

will update this as soon as i get home

[+Elliott]

nyolc8, on 27 April 2012 - 08:09, said:

Is the mac client supposed to update itself automatically? Because I have v1.2.52 and it's not updating itself, (tried to restart it).

I never even notice when it updates. It's sneaky like Chrome.

ZakO, on 27 April 2012 - 10:12, said:

Does this fix slowness if you have lots of little files? Before I stopped using dropbox I had 2.5GB of files in it, most were < 100KB and the initial sync when adding a new device took over 36 hours (avg speed < 10KB/s).

Yep, and it works pretty well now.

[alevkov]

OF: Does Dropbox allow all kind of files to be hosted? I m kinda encrypting my files to containers so i would like to know do they allow it?

[+Mephistopheles]

alevkov, on 28 April 2012 - 08:56, said:

OF: Does Dropbox allow all kind of files to be hosted? I m kinda encrypting my files to containers so i would like to know do they allow it?

There's nothing in the Dropbox Terms of Service which would disallow the upload of encrypted files.

[Singh400]

1.4.1 is now out.

alevkov, on 28 April 2012 - 08:56, said:

OF: Does Dropbox allow all kind of files to be hosted? I m kinda encrypting my files to containers so i would like to know do they allow it?

Don't see why not. If you want proper protection go with a service like SpiderOak.

[@mac]

Why is there no 64-bit for Mac yet? Its the only non-64 app that I use :-/

[Denis W]

Batch upload would be a godsend. My
Dropbox folder contains several source trees from Subversion repositories.

[ZakO]

ZakO, on 27 April 2012 - 10:12, said:

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Batch upload/download of files.

Does this fix slowness if you have lots of little files? Before I stopped using dropbox I had 2.5GB of files in it, most were < 100KB and the initial sync when adding a new device took over 36 hours (avg speed < 10KB/s).

To update myself: I just tried the new version and for me at least it was no different, took 2 days to sync 2.4GB in 35,000 files.

[xendrome]

I see this on the dropbox forums daily. It's almost like people think dropbox has some automagic control over the speed of your upload and download streams on your internet connection...