

mango: is the name of my remote directory, but you can set it to whatever subdirectory you want to interact with. This is all I needed to smoothly synchronize files between my three devices (desktop, phone, chromebook).

Rclone sync notes/ mango: to upload to Dropbox. Rclone sync mango: notes/ to download from Dropbox.

If you don't have any files in either the source or destination, check out the documentation for rclone copy and the dry-run flag. Rclone's syncing works with the following format: rclone sync source destination. Personally, I only sync a single folder with all of my text files and pdfs, and that is under the notes/ directory. If you have any recommendations or warnings, please let me know. This is the result of my trial and error. Optional setup I screwed up my files initially, but thankly I had version history. I'll describe how I set up mine for my own work flow. Login, accept rclone permission, return to terminal, hit yes. It will open up the token page in chromium. Make a new repo, name it whatever you want (mine's "mango").Īnswer no to advanced config and yes to auto config. (you have to do a whole process to get the terminal to communicate with the standard chrome, installing chromium is the simpler route). It'll make the next step much, much easier. Sudo apt install chromium, if you don't have it already, get it. It's a great tool to work with cloud storage platforms. Hello, so you decided to use Dropbox to sync your files between computers.Īrm64 is becoming the norm among chromebooks, and yet Dropbox does not have any arm64 support.
