Seit ein paar Wochen war DropboxPortableAHK nicht mehr mit der aktuellen Dropbox Version kompatibel, was viele Nutzer zum Anlass nahmen, um in den Kommentaren des letzten Blog Posts ihre Verwendungszwecke von DropboxPortableAHK zu beschreiben und wie es ihnen im Alltag behilflich ist. Das hat mich dazu ermuntert, erneut an DropboxPortableAHK zu arbeiten. Heute, mehr als zwei Jahre seit der letzten offiziellen Version, ist nun eine neue Version verfügbar (Beta Version v1.6.9), die Dropbox Versionen >= 72.4.136 unterstützt. Außerdem kann an DropboxPortableAHK.exe nun die Kommandozeilenoption ‘-disable-shortcuts’ übergeben werden, was nützlich ist, um die üblichen Shortcuts (bspw. Shift zum Öffnen der Einstellungen) während des Starts zu deaktivieren.
Es wäre schön, wenn einige von euch eine Spende in Erwägung ziehen würden, speziell diejenigen, die DropboxPortableAHK für ihre Arbeit einsetzen.
Die neue Version kann über die Downloadseite heruntergeladen werden und wird auch über das Autoupdate verteilt.
Nach dem Update muss vermutlich das Dropboxsetup erneut durchlaufen werden, um die neue Version korrekt zu initialisieren.
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