Dropbox

Dropbox was great. I still haven't entirely replaced it. It's insecure, proprietary, and received an update that broke compatibility with the CLI tools. I have no intention of having this little control over my files again, but for the sake of completion, here are my original notes.

Documentation

arch wiki

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dropbox

Install

Install Graphical Dropbox Client (see in i3 statusbar)

sudo pacman -S gendesk
pacaur -S dropbox

# prevent dropbox from auto-updating itself (causes issues on arch)
rm -rf ~/.dropbox-dist
install -dm0 ~/.dropbox-dist