In den letzten Tagen (und Nächten) habe ich viele Stunden meiner Freizeit dafür verwendet, diese Webseite voll funktionsfähig zu machen. Dabei habe ich mir alle verlinkten Beiträge noch einmal angesehen und musste feststellen, dass viele von ihnen nicht mehr aktuell waren und viele Informationen einfach fehlten. Deshalb habe ich die Einträge überarbeitet. Das sieht man vor allem bei den neuen Installationsanweisungen. Hier habe ich eine komplette Anleitung geschrieben, um DropboxPortableAHK einzurichten. Hierbei bin ich auf jede Auswahlbox und jedes Edit-Feld eingegangen, die / das euch während der Einrichtung begegnen könnte.
Ich hoffe, euch gefällt die Anleitung (und auch die neue Seite) genauso gut wie mir.
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I updated Dropbox to 1.2.48
You application won’t start with this one. There is an error message: “wrong version of dropbox”.
Stimmt leider genau ;-(
The Dropbox versions after 1.1.45 are not supported at the moment, because Dropbox now encrypts it’s database, so DropboxPortableAHK can’t change the folder path anymore.
If you are concerned about security – there is no reason. 1. If anyone can access your drive, he can read you private data anyway. 2. You can enable the encryption of the database in the DropboxPortableAHK setup, so nobody can use your configuration file without the matching password.
Ok, I understand this now better. Not so good, that you have not explaint this while installation.
Now I have your new Version running with 1.2.48. For that I have copied (after installation and first run) the new Dropbox.exe (from my normal Dropbox installation) to the folder in the portable Folder. And it works.
I doubt that this will work as expected. This behaviour is not recommended. Why do you want to use the 1.2.48 version? It didn’t change anything for Windows users except of the encrypted database.
In the moment it works (1 “normal” Dropbox installation and two portabel installations, (not a the same time…. 😉 ). Maybe it works because of the already changed (manipulated) database (by the portable installation with 1,1,45) is encryped by the new dropbox-version afterwards. Maybe.
I do want (allways) the newest versions because of new features.
As I said before, there are no new features 😉
I don’t think it is really working. Please send me your debug files through the support page.
Done (log uploaded).
The Dropbox problem was this (if I understand it right): another person can take the config file from your pc to his pc and from that moment on he can work with dropbox on _his_ pc as if he was you on your pc (upload/delete/…).
Thanks for your log file (why did you put a fake email in it? don’t you think I should be able to answer you?).
You are still using 1.1.45 and you can’t change it.
The problem you are talking about is no problem. If somebody has access to your configuration file he has also access to your other private data, so why even care about the Dropbox config? DropboxPortableAHK uses this ‘problem’ to let you use your Dropbox on every other computer.
If you are concerned about your security, you can, as I already said above, enable the encryption of the configuration file in the DropboxPortableAHK setup. Then, you’ll have to enter your own password on each start of your DropboxPortableAHK instance to decrypt your config.
If you don’t want to enter a password, then there is nothing I can do for you, because the encryption makes only sense if you don’t use the same password for every user (what Dropbox might do, I am not sure about this).
BTW: I changed the nested comments to be only 3 levels deep, as it looks stupid if it’s nested even more.
Thank you for portable dropbox
vielen Dank für die Mühe die du dir machst mit der portablen Dropbox. Ich weiß es wirklich zu schätzen und nutze die Version seit Anbeginn erfolgreich.
I reckon I can put up with 1.45 for now. Anyway, thanks a lot for your efforts, Nick!
It’s great to have it portable.
Everything works great here, thanks to your instructions page 🙂
Hey Nick. Just wanted to drop a note of compliment and thanks. I’m glad you’ve been able to keep your great app up to date. I donated in the past and I’m glad I did.
Great job on the design of the new site! Did you use jquery-ui for the input box overlays? (name, email, website, etc.). Looks pretty sweet.
Hi Mike,
the overlays are handled by the WordPress theme I use. It is a custom one based on the twentyeleven theme that comes with WordPress.
hi, your navitation bar does not look so nice in internet explorer 8. It looks like a staircase/ downward cascade. maybe worth checking out.
Thanks for your notification. I am no website guru, however, so I don’t really know how this could be fixed. I will do some research, though.
Is there a was to stop dropbox from trying to upgrade on its own? The icon keeps changing and won’t let me see whether it is finished updating or not meaning I don’t know if I can log out or not yet.
No, but you can exit Dropbox anytime, even if it displays it’s upgrade message, because there is not really an upgrade running.