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Isn't the author a Dropbox employee? Not sure if he's still at Dropbox but I believe he's one of the first employees.

Sounds great! What about debugging? I understand that Nim compiles to C/C++ so I am curious if I can use Xcode on a Mac and Visual Studio on Windows to debug the generated C/C++ code.

For those using Nim: how is the compile speed?

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Is this on Mac or Windows? Tried this on a Mac? https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202584

One bug I found is that open tracking does not seem to be working.

Maybe a way to submit feedback right from the app would be useful.

The product works well for consumer use cases. However, when it comes to business use their technology isn't there yet. The upcoming Project Infinite will however be a step forward.

This is a limitation of OneDrive indeed as it doesn't support delta sync.

Dropbox is not a sandboxed app on macOS.

Based on the replies here it looks like most people are fine with the way things are now. Maybe this is the reason why we haven't seen any big innovations in this space in the last years?

I am new to InfluxDB but I am interested in using it for some desktop app analytics. Are there any resources that you would recommend I start with? Maybe some from your own experience? How hard was for you to start using it for desktop app analytics?

What kind of apps do you have in mind? Care to share more details?

The articles from Chuck Jazdzewski made my day. I sometimes wonder what the early members of the Delphi team are working on today. Thanks for sharing the link!

They stated plans for Linux server support in Delphi but no GUI apps for Linux.

It reads the NTFS Master File Table (MFT) which contains records for all files and folders. It only does this the first time it runs (or when you manually tell it to rebuild the index). It also uses the NTFS USN journal [1] in order to update changes to its index so that it doesn't need to read the MFT and rebuild the index every time it runs.

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...

That's right. OSXFUSE includes a kernel extension (https://github.com/osxfuse/kext). There is no other technical way to achieve this without a kernel extension on both Windows and OSX.

I believe this is not the case here. In order for the files to start taking space on your drive you would actually need to right click that folder and choose "Save a local copy".

Any reference for this?

Are there any advantages in using LLDB for Go debugging compared to Delve (https://github.com/derekparker/delve) ?

Yes, you can install Carousel from Dropbox. It will store your photos in Dropbox and free up the space on your phone but you will still be able to see the photos in the Carousel app. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/carousel-by-dropbox/id825931...

Look for "Free Up iPhone Space" in "Settings"

This is something I wish I implemented as a hobby project but never found the time to do it. Congrats! I see you implement a directory as a file containing a b-tree. Could you provide more info on this?

http://www.boxifier.com - Sync and backup any folder to Dropbox. 100% desktop app.

We are bootstrapped. An app like ours probably wouldn't make sense for a VC to back but it feels really great knowing that people from all over the world use it to backup their external drives to Dropbox or collaborate on the files on their NAS using Dropbox.

At one point you might feel out of the trend for not building a mobile or web app but I guess what matters is that your app helps someone, regardless of it being a web, mobile or desktop app.

Nice analysis.

I remember having a chat with Andrei, one of D's creators, almost one year ago and saying: "If you want D to be more popular, maybe you should make an announcement about Facebook using D internally". Seems that day is here :)

Haven't tried it yet but I hope the visual icons (green, blue) would help me see which files have been actually synced.

And yes, I know the USB drive scenario, I got burned myself many times.

Asides from PRISM/privacy concerns, the integration is pretty interesting.

AFAIK they also shutdown and restart explorer.exe.