Hi, I've been a donation supporter of FFS for about 4 years. I love this program, it has never let me down with deleted files or screwed up file structures. In fact, it is the only syncing tool I have used in 30 years that has functioned perfectly as intended for as long as I have used it. I have also put it on client machines and setup donation for them as well.
But I have a problem that is really a Dropbox problem, but I wanted to add it here to see if it might be interesting to FFS.
I have a very large Dropbox library of over 5TB of files, totally over 400,000 files at this point. This is mainly taken up by the work archive for my company, and for a huge 4TB music library. Most of these also live on a 10TB hard drive on my main PC. We need to use Dropbox for our company for many other reasons, and we get unlimited storage. In the past the Dropbox client on windows has worked very well for me, but I have passed the 300,000 files threshold where the Dropbox Client begins to mess up. I need to start moving some of these files to cloud only storage. I wanted to move my music library to cloud only as that will cure the Dropbox client issue. I keep my music library on a local NAS and periodically run FFS to mirror that to Dropbox (and to some other local and offsite backups). Locally FFS works great. But even using the Dropbox client with no offline storage for the Music Library causes DB to mess up. So, I would love to see a feature where FFS can sync to the Dropbox Cloud directly. I've see a few topics here that mention the need of it. Is this possible and interesting for FFS? I've seen this is a common feature of many programs, and maybe there is some code out there you can leverage to do this.
Thanks for a great product.
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Hi,
I use ffs with Dropbox.
You need an open source app called rclone. Use it to map/mount a drive letter in Windows to your Dropbox account.
You can use NSSM to install rclone as a service so it mounts the drive every time you log into windows.
Let me know if you need any further assistance.
How well it works will depend on your upload and download speed on the internet.
I use ffs with Dropbox.
You need an open source app called rclone. Use it to map/mount a drive letter in Windows to your Dropbox account.
You can use NSSM to install rclone as a service so it mounts the drive every time you log into windows.
Let me know if you need any further assistance.
How well it works will depend on your upload and download speed on the internet.
