Dropbox

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Dropbox is a US based commercial company.
Any data saved via Dropbox, are affected by US laws.
At UZH, the recommended alternative to dropbox is Switchdrive: http://drive.switch.ch.
Advantages of Switchdrive against Dropbox:
- Swiss data protection laws are respected.
- Diskquota: 50GB.
- All major OS are fully supported.

I-MATH: Thinlinc

Disk usage of Dropbox is separated from I-MATH home quota.
The default disk quota for the thinlinx dropbox installation is 10GB. If you need more, please contact the IT-support.
Use the prepared dropbox installation: Applications > Internet > Dropbox
Please follow the installation steps carefully, to get a running dropbox installation.

End of 2018, dropbox limits the linux client to only operate on ext4 filesystem.
To fulfil the requirements in the thinlinc environment, we've installed a system wide workaround.
If you run into trouble during installation, please contact the IT-support.
Start: Applications > Internet > Dropbox.
If you start 'dropbox' the first time: you're asked for your I-MATH password - please provide.
The first start might take several minutes! Please be patient.
Click 'OK' to start the Dropbox installation.
After some time, a webbrowser opens and asks you to log in via dropbox.com to your dropbox account: do this.
Again after some time, you'll be prompted with:

Click on Move.
The above windows stays in front - move it to the side, navigate to /dropbox/<your account> and click Choose.

If you already have a lot of files in your Dropbox, it might take several minutes until the files are synchronized.

Q: I'm missing my Dropbox folder?
A: Navigate in the filemanager to /dropbox/<my account>.
Q: I don't like `/dropbox/<my account>'. Can I move it to a different location?
A: No. Only `/dropbox/<my account>' will work in a thinlinc environment.
Q: Are there snapshots/backups of /dropbox/<my account>?
A: No. The ext4 filesystem does not support snapshots. Use the Dropbox webinterface to access older versions of your files.