DropBox-Handler makes your Dropbox account appear as an ordinary AmigaDOS
volume named DBOX:. Once mounted you can browse it in the Workbench, change
into its drawers from the Shell, and open or save files from any application,
exactly as if it were a local disk. Files are transferred to and from Dropbox
on demand over a secure HTTPS connection.
Version 2.0 is a rewrite on top of filesysbox.library - the same library
smb2-handler and nfs-handler use. The AmigaDOS side (locks, directories,
ExAll, notifications, protection bits, UTF-8 file names, files over 2 GB)
comes from the library; the handler itself only speaks Dropbox.
FEATURES
- Dropbox mounted as a normal volume (DBOX:); browse, copy, create, delete,
rename, run programs, open projects - from the Workbench, the Shell and
applications.
- Directory cache with patch-on-change: Copy/Delete loops do not refetch
the drawer at every step; changes made elsewhere show up after CACHETTL
seconds (60 by default).
- Writes are buffered locally (T: by default) and uploaded when the file is
closed: seeking back and rewriting inside a file works like on a disk.
Big files go through Dropbox upload sessions in CHUNK KB pieces.
- Adaptive read-ahead: large sequential reads speed up automatically while
drawer browsing and small reads stay light. HTTPS connections are kept
open between requests.
- Secure connection via AmiSSL 5 (TLS 1.2+).
- MUI setup program (DropBoxPrefs) that stores your keys, logs you in with a
QR code scanned by your phone, or loads the authorisation code from a
text file, and writes the configuration for you.
- One "DropBox-Toggle" script that mounts and unmounts with a single command
(unmount via FbxDismount from the filesysbox archive).
- Live storage quota via Info DBOX:.
- Mountlist options: VOLUME, CONFIG, SPOOL, CACHETTL, READAHEAD, CHUNK,
TIMEOUT, READONLY, DEBUG, LOGFILE, NOREQ.
- All credentials live in a single config file; nothing secret is compiled
into the programs, and the short-lived session token is kept in memory
only, never written to disk. The 1.0 configuration file works unchanged.
INSTALLATION
Double-click the Install icon (Commodore Installer). It copies the handler
to L:, its data to DEVS:Cloud, DropBoxPrefs to SYS:Prefs and DropBox-Toggle
to S:. filesysbox.library (Aminet util/libs/filesysbox.lha) and AmiSSL 5
must be installed separately. Then read the AmigaGuide: you have to create
a Dropbox "app" once (free, five minutes) and authorise it with
DropBoxPrefs.
HISTORY
2.0 Rewrite on filesysbox.library; directory cache; spooled writes with
upload sessions; adaptive read-ahead; new Mountlist options; case-only
renames; refusal to delete non-empty drawers; Deny readers removed;
DropBoxPrefs 1.1 with "Load code from file...".
1.0 First release (Norbert Kett's handler modernised: OAuth2 refresh
tokens, AmiSSL TLS 1.2, DropBoxPrefs with QR login).
Dropbox is a trademark of Dropbox, Inc. This is an independent, unofficial
program and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Dropbox, Inc.
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