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Dropbox Installer
Dropbox Installer
Description:
Dropbox is a service that lets you bring all your photos, documents, and videos anywhere, and share them easily. Any file you save to your Drop...
Updated to: Dropbox Installer 0.9.7
- New Features in this release
- Add-on will always install the latest stable version of the Dropbox client
- Add-on will try to detect broken push updates by Dropbox and fix those
- The add-on pane of the Dropbox add-on now has a new section at the bottom which looks similar to this:
- As you can see there are three sections showing the currently installed version, the latest stable version available from Dropbox and the current beta version in testing by Dropbox.
Below those version numbers there may appear different buttons. The first one, Enable auto-update does exactly that, it enables the automatic update of your Dropbox client on the ReadyNAS to the latest stable version. This also means that auto-updates are disabled by default. When auto-updates are disabled, the add-on will try to detect pushed updates by Dropbox and silently delete those. However, this won't work under certain conditions.
For example if Dropbox pushes an update and the ReadyNAS is powered down before the add-on does its check, the update will most likely get installed on the next startup of the ReadyNAS. While this was a problem in earlier versions because Dropbox tried to install a 64bit version of their client on the ReadyNAS, the add-on now tries really hard to detect a broken 64bit install and replace it with a working 32bit one. However, to make as sure as possible that this will work with whatever version was pushed, it will use the same revision as was installed by the auto-update, thereby actually doing an upgrade even if the user didn't want that to happen. - In the middle section you can see the Upgrade to latest button. Using this you can manually upgrade your Dropbox client to the latest stable version offered by Dropbox. Once you do this or when your installed version already matches the latest release, this button will no longer be available and the add-on pane will look similar to this picture:
- In the rightmost column there's the Upgrade to testing button. This allows you to update your Dropbox client on the ReadyNAS to the latest version currently in public beta testing by Dropbox. Use this with care. Dropbox may decide to change internal database formats or other structures that may cause your Dropbox to fail or prevent you from safely downgrading to the stable version again. That said, after clicking the button the information displayed by the add-on should change to something like this:
- So as you can see, in the second column there's now a Downgrade to stable button. Using this you can again switch back to the latest stable version, provided there weren't any incompatible changes introduced by the beta. So again:Before using a beta version make sure you can go back. Please.
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