dropbox

Dropbox for Linux can be accessed in multiple ways. There is an official client from dropbox that syncs. There is also a plugin for nemo.

dropbox/vera,now 2020.03.04 amd64 [installed]
nemo-dropbox/vera,now 5.6.0+vera amd64 [installed]
dropbox status
dropbox stop
dropbox start

Running official client, has one big disadvantage of 200Mb of memory.

A CLI utility named Dropbox Uploader by Andrea Fabrizi is quite lightweight, but it doesn’t sync. Manual upload and download though is possible.

To ensure that dropbox sync works with official client, when manually started or autostarted, there can be no symlinks. So folders related to Org Mode has been bind mounted as per below link to ensure that Org Roam works seamlessly.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1385942/how-can-i-change-the-dropbox-folder-location-using-only-the-command-line-remote ↗

The below line from /etc/fstab

#mounting to dropbox folder for dropbox official client
/data/docs/prabu/Dropbox /home/prabu/Dropbox bind bind

There is also another solution maestral at https://github.com/SamSchott/maestral ↗ Not tested.

The above setup ensures orgzly and orgro works with dropbox to access files from desktop.