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After you install the Dropbox desktop app on your computer, you can access Dropbox from the icon in your taskbar (Windows) or menu bar (Mac) or the Dropbox folder in File Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac).


Dropbox Web Helper supports the Dropbox user interface on Mac computers. It only runs when the desktop app is running. 



Dropbox Web Helper is an independent process, so it may start and stop at different times than the desktop app. If you adjust your firewall or antivirus software for Dropbox, we recommend similar adjustments for Dropbox Web Helper.



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With the Dropbox desktop app, you can save, view, share, and access the files and folders stored in your Dropbox account from your computer. When you download and install the Dropbox desktop app, two things are added to your computer:


When you remote wipe your files from a computer, the computer immediately logs you out and stops syncing. Dropbox then attempts to remove any Dropbox files from that computer when the computer is online and the desktop app is running. The removed files will still be available everywhere else you access your files in Dropbox.


To remote wipe Dropbox files from a computer, follow the steps to log out remotely from your computer and check the box next to Delete files from [Account name] Dropbox the next time this computer comes online before the last step of clicking Sign out.


Like many programs and applications, Dropbox may automatically update to the latest version. These updates are rolled out gradually after a new update is available, and are necessary to keep Dropbox on your computer functioning.


You can automatically create a back up of key folders stored on your computer in your Dropbox account. After the initial backup, any changes you make to those folders or their contents will be automatically updated on your computer and your Dropbox folder.


Under a Windows OS, 'sleep' means that the computer is off and not running programs, but memory is being held live so that it can wake up very quickly. In this state, NO, dropbox can't sync, because it's not running.


With my Dropbox on Mac, I found by looking at my Recent Event page on dropbox.com that the sync only happens while I'm at the machine, although I didn't let it sleep before I left (to sync the huge batch of files). The solution above worked for me -- now it syncs while I'm away.






I did it a little bit differently on my setup, though. I began with an existing site folder that I was already sharing between two computers on a cloud drive (iCloud for now, although see my cautions about iCloud above). I created it in the following way:


I switch between machines and OSes frequently. I found it easier to use docker to bring up sites, work on them, save them and bring them down with files saved and synced in dropbox. Its as easy as docker-compose up.


Please, can OneDrive be used for the same purpose to sync local sites between computers under local classic since it is already install on my local machine which syncs to OneDrive and as such a virtual folder would have been created so I am just wondering if my team and I can work from different computers and backup onto same folder on OneDrive?


Thanks John for the explanation.

The rhl file is well copied from one computer to another via dropbox, but it is therefore possible that the second computer does not take the file correctly into account if I understand correctly.


Another option is to use a different Dropbox account for each user login on your computer. While this technically means you can have several Dropbox folders on the same computer, you will have to switch between each user account to take advantage of Dropbox's syncing features. This method is best for groups or families that have individual Dropbox accounts and use unique user logins on the same computer.


Dropbox installs to your home directory. This is true across platforms - we use it on Mac, Windows, and Linux. In all cases, installing it for one user only sets it up for that specific user. If I need it in two accounts I have to install and configure it separately for both accounts. This makes sense from a security standpoint (it shares only your personal documents, not a single shared location that all users can access) and from a use-case standpoint (it's generally used for syncing data between computers, not for syncing between accounts on one system).


I have used Joplin for over a year. I have it running on my desktop. I have been synchronising my desktop app notebook with my android device using dropbox successfully. I have now changed my phone and loaded the Joplin app on my new phone. I cannot work out how to set up the desktop notebook sync with my new phone. Can you help? It's frustrating because I obviously got it to work with my previous phone - but cannot seem to repeat it. Thanks.


As an aside I figure I originally got my concepts mixed up. I originally thought you had to set up the each notebook to sync, but once I'd enabled the connection between dropbox and the device it sync'd all the notebooks that were sync enabled. Lesson learnt.


Dropbox is a storage drive for your files that lets you save documents, photos, videos and other files all in one place in the cloud. It automatically backs up your documents and syncs to your computer.


Further findings; the settings accessible by right clicking the dropbox tray icon does follow gtk theme and font settings. It is the initial set up that does not, and that is crucial to the account and linking of the computer. Nothing works in Dropbox without the initial account linking from your computer in the desktop linux application. (just to be clear that the web site has nothing to do with this computer set up)


If your system has been taken over an attacker could manipulate the install dates of any software, so anything you see on a hacked system must be treated with doubt. The IP address you listed is a valid dropbox IP, however that means nothing - if I was writing malware I'd seriously consider using dropbox to distribute it. It's robust, completely free, and people are likely to discount it as a threat vector: "Oh that's just dropbox, don't worry about it."


So it is entirely possible that the malware installed uses a dropbox labelled process to actually connect to dropbox and download latest versions of malware and operating instructions, although that scenario is not particularly likely. It is much more likely that this is actually a completely legitimate dropbox installation that you don't remember installing, and therefore a red herring. Unfortunately, there's no way to know for sure as once a system is hacked you can never trust it again. Your best bet is to wipe your system and start over.


Another option which is granted a bit more nutty, would be to set up each system as a salt-master server that is also its own minion, then share your salt states between drop box, and use salt states as a way of managing your system, so instead of installing a package directly, setup a salt state to install it, and run the salt state. Then each boot once dropbox files have synced, you could let salt then go through and sync your system to the newest states that you have put in place.


One issue overall you should keep in mind is that dropbox syncing is not immediate, so a system would have to boot before it got the latest files, some files are only loaded on system boot, so certain config files if you were managing the ENTIRE OS via dropbox, would not match up with other things that have been synced, which could cause system instability.


Issue #2 is something that is faced by any system that involves automatic login without user intervention. Some secret token must be stored on the client computer which is used for automated authentication. There was substantial room for improvement in how Dropbox handles these tokens, but we are happy to report that they have already made important improvements and promise more, saying:


Installing anything creates a potential for vulnerabilities - e.g., if there's a vulnerability in the dropbox daemon (or whatever protocol you use for sharing files), or in any other software on your Linux box, it would be possible to exploit it (once it's known). You'll need to evaluate how much of a risk this is for each component that you want to use (e.g. an up-to-date vanilla SSH server install is somewhat safe for such home-server use that you're outlining - given other precautions)

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