Dropbox 1.4.0 stable released

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What's new in Dropbox 1.4.0:

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

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Link: Dropbox blog post about the new release

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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).

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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.

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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. :p

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.

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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.

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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.

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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...

Not sure if that was aimed at me but anyway... I'm on a 80/20mbit connection (I get approx 76/19) , SpiderOak, Ubuntu One and SugarSync all sync the exact same files in under an hour but it takes Dropbox over 24 hours. If I just sync large files Dropbox is fine but lots of small files cripples its performance. I'm aware doing lots of little requests rather than one large one will reduce throughput, that's why I was hoping their new batching feature would bring it in line with the other syncing software.

Edit: It looks like for some reason the 1.4.0 installer/updater silently failed, preferences was still listing 1.3.9. After completely removing dropbox and doing a fresh install of 1.4.1 the new version does seem to have improved speeds. I'm getting ~300kB/s with a new sync now, still slower than the others but a massive improvement over 1.3.x.

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