Software Update: Dropbox 3.0.2 RC

By admin On Dec 8, 2014

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Version 3.0.2 of Dropbox has been released, a development version. Dropbox is an online storage service that makes it possible to synchronize files between different computers. In addition, files and photo albums can be shared with people who don’t have Dropbox accounts. Clients are available for Windows, Linux, OS X, iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and Kindle Fire. A free account gives access to 2GB of storage, with the option to expand it by introducing new users. The storage capacity is 1TB for a payment of ten euros per month. In addition, a business subscription can be taken out. The release notes for this release are as follows:

New in 3.0.2

Fixes moving Dropbox folder location on Linux.

New in the 3.0 series:

Rewrite of the Windows & Linux UI (1)
File identifiers (2)
Windows long path support (3)
New Linux headless setup flow
Updated splash screens
New Finder icon overlays
New Windows notification area icons
New black and white Mac menu bar icons (4)

Notes

This UI rewrite helps us fix a large number of issues/glitches you have reported over the years, improve performance, support high DPI on Windows, a new setup wizard on Linux, and more!

File identifiers enable Dropbox to detect when files have been moved and renamed. In the future we’ll be able to use this to improve features such as Previous versions. For now, this change should be invisible. Let us know if applications working with files in your Dropbox start interacting differently.

While Dropbox on Windows now supports paths longer than 260 characters, many applications such as Windows Explorer and Microsoft Word do not.

We now have just one set of menu bar icons on Mac which are black and white. These icons fully support Yosemite’s dark mode.

On OS X 10.10 Yosemite, context menu items outside of the Dropbox folder are not supported. This means the “Move to Dropbox” context menu item is not supported. This is due to a limitation in Yosemite’s Finder Sync Framework.

Version number	3.0.2 RC
Release status	beta
Operating systems	Windows 7, Android, Linux, Windows XP, macOS, Windows Vista, iOS, Blackberry OS, Windows 8
Website	Dropbox
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License type	Freeware/Paid