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I've recently installed Dropbox and it seems like a useful cloud storage app. The free account comes with 2gb of storage, which can be increased in 250mb increments by referrals up to (I believe) 10gb.

If you don't already have a Dropbox account, please consider using this http://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTEyOTEzODk4OQreferral link. I think I read that by using it, you will also get a 250mb increase to your own new account.

Thank you.


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Re: Dropbox Tue, 26 October 2010 11:54 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Ron wrote on Tue, 26 October 2010 16:37

I've recently installed Dropbox and it seems like a useful cloud storage app. The free account comes with 2gb of storage, which can be increased in 250mb increments by referrals up to (I believe) 10gb.

If you don't already have a Dropbox account, please consider using this http://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTEyOTEzODk4OQreferral link. I think I read that by using it, you will also get a 250mb increase to your own new account.

Thank you.


Indeed, when creating a new one you also get the extra 250mb. (sorry, already got one)

I'm using dropbox to share files for a Stars! team game right now, no more hassle in mailing .x and .h files back and forth! We now always we have the most up to date .x file in the shared dropbox folder (and get a warning when it's updated). Have been looking for such a thing for years! It's just a plain folder on your harddisk and you can launch Stars! straigth away. (It also keep backups of changes ...) After the install and sharing of the folder you don't have to do anything anymore, excpet play! Great! Smile

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Re: Dropbox Wed, 27 October 2010 01:33 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Micha wrote on Wed, 27 October 2010 04:54

I'm using dropbox to share files for a Stars! team game right now, no more hassle in mailing .x and .h files back and forth! We now always we have the most up to date .x file in the shared dropbox folder (and get a warning when it's updated). Have been looking for such a thing for years! It's just a plain folder on your harddisk and you can launch Stars! straigth away. (It also keep backups of changes ...) After the install and sharing of the folder you don't have to do anything anymore, excpet play! Great! Smile

This is one of the best ideas I've heard in a long time!

...and would work equally well for non-team non-AH games, just password your game files.

<goes to find other games that this applies too...Warlords 2 maybe...>

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Re: Dropbox Wed, 27 October 2010 03:46 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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gible wrote on Wed, 27 October 2010 07:33

Micha wrote on Wed, 27 October 2010 04:54

I'm using dropbox to share files for a Stars! team game right now, no more hassle in mailing .x and .h files back and forth! We now always we have the most up to date .x file in the shared dropbox folder (and get a warning when it's updated). Have been looking for such a thing for years! It's just a plain folder on your harddisk and you can launch Stars! straigth away. (It also keep backups of changes ...) After the install and sharing of the folder you don't have to do anything anymore, excpet play! Great! Smile

This is one of the best ideas I've heard in a long time!

...and would work equally well for non-team non-AH games, just password your game files.

Yup, you could use it to host non-AH games as well, it would be similar like AH before the up/download PW was in place. Some might find that not enough security though.

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<goes to find other games that this applies too...Warlords 2 maybe...>

There are other games than Stars!? Shocked
(truth be told, playing Borderlands a lot lately)

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Re: Dropbox Wed, 27 October 2010 06:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Micha wrote on Wed, 27 October 2010 20:46


There are other games than Stars!? Shocked

Lurking maybe...

OpenTTD is my crak du jour...

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Cool I've been playing Minecraft lately.

Anyway, I used to use Microsoft Foldershare to easily sync files in a folder to/from home/work computers. Now Micro$oft has renamed it and it looks like it's only for Vista/Win7.

I've also used DeltaCopy setup over Hamachi, but you have to initiate the transfer from whichever side to need to transfer files from, so its only a one-way sync.

Dropbox seems to be just what I need to easily sync files back and forth, with the advantage of being able to access them through a web interface, and can share files/folders with anyone else just by sending them a special URL.


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Re: Dropbox Sat, 26 March 2011 16:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Looks like I need some help with Dropbox. I'm trying to use Dropbox to share ranks.htm discussed in this thread. In theory I can put any file into Public folder, get a public link and then having this link anyone can get this file, but in fact this works for some file types (so far verified it with gif, png, pdf, doc, txt, cpp, h and others), but didn't work with htm and html at all. Every time I'm trying to open htm or html using public link it always shows error 404. Currently my public folder contains two files: ranks.htm and ranks.txt. Technically speaking ranks.txt are the copy of the ranks.htm which extension was changed. But first one always returns an error 404, and second one always opens correctly. I'm pretty sure I've screwed up somewhere, but cannot find where... so, any help would be appreciated.
PS: At the same time ranks.htm can easily be opened from gible Dropbox. Confused




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Re: Dropbox Sat, 26 March 2011 17:51 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Yeah, DropBox is sufficiently simple that I'm not sure you can screw it up.

The (very remote) only possibility I could think of was that the background no-duplicate files space saving process was somehow messing with it. But removing ranks.htm from my DB didn't fix it.

Ask on the DB forums. AFAICT they're very responsive.

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gible wrote on Sat, 26 March 2011 16:51

Yeah, DropBox is sufficiently simple that I'm not sure you can screw it up.
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