[_razvan]

Hi there,

Razvan (author) here. I created an app to sync any folder with Dropbox. It currently works on Windows. Haven't finished the website yet, just the app.

A little background on the app: I wanted to backup my external drives to Dropbox for a while and tried using symlinks but those don't work for that. If you remove the external drive, all your files will get deleted from Dropbox. Also, you need to restart Dropbox if you make changes to the folders on the external drive. Otherwise, they won't be synced.

I talked to my twin brother about this and he suggested building an app for that. Having a background in Windows internals we decided to go ahead and build it. We wanted to solve that in an elegant and effortless way, something even our parents (who are not tech savvy) could use.

So here is Boxifier, a Windows app which installs on top of Dropbox and lets you right click any folder and sync it to Dropbox.

I would really appreciate any feedback you might have. Thanks, Razvan

[zzleeper]

Great! already, subscribed.. also, two things that you can think about for the future:

1) I have the impression that a lot of people want to share, say, git folders, so there may actually be a huge demand for file exclusions (I think there is a mac app for that, but nothing in windows). 2) Can I pick where in dropbox will this be synced to? When you have 100s of GBs (or dropbox for business accounts), your root DB folder can get very polluted, so linking to subfolders can be useful.

Thanks again!

[_razvan]

1) Yes, file exclusions are definitely on our roadmap.

2) For now folders sync as subfolders of the Dropbox\Boxifier folder, but we've been receiving this feature request so that you can pick where your outside folders will be synced in Dropbox. This is also on our roadmap.

[zzleeper]

Hi Razvan,

Is there a way to exclude some files? Or can one be added? E.G. i tend to have a "tmp" subfolder that I want to exclude; or maybe exclude some file extensions? (kinda like .gitignore does?)

[_razvan]

Hi Sergio,

Not for now, but we're working on a solution for this. I'll let you know when it is available.

[tobib]

Would you mind giving a bit more information about how it's working?

[_razvan]

Sure. It adds a file system virtualization layer under the Dropbox desktop client so that folders outside of Dropbox are seen by the Dropbox client as part of the Dropbox folder.

Boxifier monitors those folders for changes, aggregates the changes and then passes them to the Dropbox client through the virtualization layer.