maestral

I’ve been using https://github.com/samschott/maestral instead of Dropbox’s client for the last year or so and it’s been rock-solid.

Worth mention the open source project Maestral: https://github.com/SamSchott/maestral (an unofficial Dropbox client)

>- Debug apps which don't opt into debugging, using gdb/lldb, without disabling SIP. It's my computer, I should be root, I should be able to introspect how processes execute on it. Not being able to do so prevented me from debugging https://github.com/samschott/maestral/issues/597, since I had to disable SIP, which required rebooting, which stopped the bug from happening. Another option is to re-sign the application with the entitlements necessary for debugging. e.g: https://gist.github.com/talaviram/1f21e141a137744c89e81b58f7...

- Debug apps which don't opt into debugging, using gdb/lldb, without disabling SIP. It's my computer, I should be root, I should be able to introspect how processes execute on it. Not being able to do so prevented me from debugging https://github.com/samschott/maestral/issues/597, since I had to disable SIP, which required rebooting, which stopped the bug from happening. - Edit $PATH for IDEs launched from the Mac GUI (to add MacPorts/Homebrew-installed Ninja to Qt Creator's binary search $PATH). ~/.profile isn't evaluated at login time (only in terminals), /etc/paths doesn't work (forgot if it affected terminals, definitely doesn't affect GUI apps), and `launchctl setenv PATH` didn't work in my testing. - Install libraries like SDL systemwide in paths searched by default by build systems and runtimes, like on Linux. MacPorts installs to

And yet the Mac client still wakes up whenever I touch files outside my Dropbox folder, and has become a monstrosity full of “UX” I never use (so I switched to other things, and most of my friends to https://github.com/SamSchott/maestral).

I did the same and it is working fine. There’s just 3 things that are missing in maestral if you don‘t care for the productivity stuff like comments etc.: 1) No overlay icons in the finder (see https://github.com/SamSchott/maestral/issues/443) 2) No incremental sync for large files where just a few blocks change (the API does not provide this) 3) No support for extended file attributes (so you cannot sync .app bundles)

If you still haven't found a use for them: they make for good low-power, always-on, headless networked servers for processing-light tasks. Other commentators mentioned pihole/DNS, WireGuard, and music streaming, but you can also use them for a (slow) NFS server, persistent Syncthing node, Maestral host[1] (third-party Dropbox client written in Python (that can actually run on the Raspberry Pi, unlike the official Dropbox client)), or device that maintains a connection to a distributed network (e.g. Hyporborea/cjdns). [1] https://github.com/SamSchott/maestral

Maestral (https://github.com/SamSchott/maestral) is a pretty light-weight Dropbox client that works well for mac

I don't know, I think it's pretty great. Can't live without it. The client's UI is a bit odd, but at the end of the day it's really good at what it's supposed to do: Syncing files. Performance is also great: I'm using multiple machines to write code on, and I keep my local git repo on Dropbox. I can literally save a change on my notebook and run it on some other machine 3 seconds later. On Mac and Linux you might want to check out maestral (https://github.com/SamSchott/maestral), a third-party client that works really well.