During the last weeks, DropboxPortableAHK was incompatible with the current Dropbox version, which prompted many of its users to write comments on the last blog post on how they use DropboxPortableAHK and how it helps them in their daily life. This encouraged me to work on DropboxPortableAHK again and today, two years after the last official release, there is now a new version available (beta version v1.6.9), which brings support for Dropbox versions greater than 72.4.136. Additionally, you can pass ‘-disable-shortcuts’ to DropboxPortableAHK.exe in case you start it automatically in the background and want to prevent the usual shortcuts (like pressing Shift to open the settings) from interfering with the startup.
It would be great if some of you’d consider sending a donation, especially those that use DropboxPortableAHK for work.
The new version can be downloaded from the Download page and will be rolled out through the auto update of DropboxPortableAHK.
After the update, you probably have to re-run through the Dropbox setup to correctly link it to your account again.
Sehr cool. Vielen Dank Nick.
Vielen Dank!
I can’t thank you enough for this! Your improvements transform Dropbox from decent software into fantastic software. Now Dropbox works for the user the way it should. I appreciate your work greatly.
Vielen Dank! Beeindruckende Arbeit!
Amazing work!! I can’t thank you enough for this!!! It’s a lifesaver!
Hi
It works just wonderfully, except for one tiny detail. I switch between ordinary dropbox (by doing “Exit Dropbox”) and DropboxPortableAHK. But every time I do this, DPAHK belives my machine is a new client. So after some days I get an error that I’ve utilized all my three clients and need to delete some.
Also, this means DPAHK does a full 60000+ files sync on start (which takes quite some time).
Keep up the good work. I’ve donated 🙂
BR,
Tomas
This should not be the case, DropboxPortableAHK should keep your files indexed without issues. Please get in touch with me through the Contact page so that we can figure out what’s going wrong for you.
Thank you! Could you just confirm it works on Windows 7? Because the former version, after going to 70.x or so, would not work on 7 (folder would remain on default as i recall), worked fine on 10 which i hate but had to use just for this up to now..!
I always test DropboxPortableAHK on Windows 7 and it works just fine there.
I just tried creating a new AHK and when pressing “start Dropbox Setup”.. Nothing happens! On Windows 7 x64. So it seems there’s still an issue here.. Why would it be different for you using same system?!
Are you on a private or corporate machine? Many corporate machines simply block the dropbox.exe (which DropboxPortableAHK uses internally) from starting.
If I rename dropboxahk.exe to dropbox.exe will it continue running, when an update is delivered?
Yes, the name of the executable is irrelevant.
Thank you!
My config file is large >2gb . What files are unnecessary and can i delete ?
Which config files are you talking about? If in doubt, you can simply delete the entire `.dbfiles` folder and set up DropboxPortableAHK from scratch. This will involve reindexing your whole Dropbox though, which might take a bit depending on the amount of files that you have.
Hi Guys!
I’ve created some Batch and PS scripts to automatically download, extract and update the latest DropBox for Windows client used by DropboxPortableAHK.
You can find it here: https://github.com/ducklingasa/dbpahk-update
Thank you so much it did work,even if the script didn’t excecute totaly!!!!
These lines you have to fix:
7z e .update\DropboxOfflineInstaller.exe -o.update DropboxClientInstaller.exe.* | FIND “Extracting archive:”
7z x .update\DropboxClientInstaller.exe.* -o.update | FIND “Extracting archive:”
now its works again. Thanks