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Open-source Dropbox client for macOS and Linux

12 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 3 stories, 9 comments · first 2020-11-11 · latest 2026-07-08

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  1. 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.
    comment by doersino · 2023-04-27 · in Dropbox telemetry can't be disabled
  2. Worth mention the open source project Maestral: https://github.com/SamSchott/maestral (an unofficial Dropbox client)
    comment by iansinnott · 2023-02-04 · in Expected changes with Dropbox for macOS
  3. …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…
    comment by Klonoar · 2022-04-26 · in Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
  4. …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…
    comment by nyanpasu64 · 2022-04-26 · in Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
  5. …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 ).
    comment by rcarmo · 2021-12-13 · in Broccoli: Syncing faster by syncing less (2020)
  6. …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…
    comment by planb · 2021-10-28 · in Dropbox Sync does not natively support Apple Silicon
  7. …or device that maintains a connection to a distributed network (e.g. Hyporborea/cjdns). [1] https://github.com/SamSchott/maestral
    comment by throw10920 · 2021-10-25 · in Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (2016)
  8. Maestral ( https://github.com/SamSchott/maestral ) is a pretty light-weight Dropbox client that works well for mac
    comment by ajkblue · 2021-05-18 · in How M1 Macs feel faster than Intel models: it’s about QoS
  9. …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.
    comment by svara · 2020-11-11 · in How we designed Dropbox’s ATF – an async task framework