Dropbox for R6 (x86 only)

btaroli wrote:
Nope, nothing in /root. Despite that, it was odd that /folders/ were showing up in my user homedir, but not files. :) Would it put them different places? ;)

I agree but then I have no insight into the internals of Dropbox so my guess at what happened is as good as anyone's ;)

btaroli wrote:
Upon installing 1.0.4, it seemed to magically remember that my user was configured. Given I'd previously wiped out the list in /etc/default/dropbox when doing earlier uninstall, I'm left to imagine that the file was left there after doing this last uninstall? Not sure.

That's two totally different things. Dropbox Manager remembers the users you as the admin of the ReadyNAS started the Dropbox daemon for in the /etc/default/dropbox file. Dropbox itself however remembers it's state for every user in an encrypted database it puts into the .dropbox directory below the user's home dir. Or into /apps/.dropbox for the admin user. Since you didn't wipe this dir on your latest try Dropbox of course maintained stated and remembered that the Dropbox was already linked. The Dropbox Manager app will *never* wipe either the Dropbox folder or the .dropbox info structure. This is to make sure that a users doesn't accidentally removes his files.

btaroli wrote:
Am I curious enough to try and install the old version to verify if that was the issue? Not at this moment, but ask me later. ;)

Well, you can try that if you want to. But I don't think that there's any real benefit in doing so, since the old version is no longer available to users anyway.

btaroli wrote:
Also, is there a way to get notified when new builds of the add-on are available?

I've been thinking about this but haven't yet come to a solution that's good enough for me. I could try using some sort of mailing list but then I don't want to spam users. I could try to check directly from the ReadyNAS but that would require a working internet connection on the NAS as well as a alert email address being set (for I would want to notify the admin and not each and any user of the NAS). Or I could try to make a check from within the different web interfaces. This would possibly work for Dropbox where the web interface was written by me, but wouldn't work for other apps/add-ons where there is no real custom interface. And it also would require an active internet connection of course. To sum it up I find it a bit disappointing that NETGEAR with ROS6 stripped the update notification system that was integrated into ROS4 and ROS5.

-Stefan

P.S.: The version you were using before actually was 1.0.2. The thing there is that NETGEAR doesn't determine the version number from the file name automatically but instead requires the developer to manually change that number in the config.xml file - which I obviously forgot for 1.0.2.