I have installed Dropbox in Windows 7. Also, installed Ubuntu Linux 14.04 in parallel. Through online login to Dropbox account allows access to files in Dropbox. However, to work with the files in Dropbox I have to install Dropbox in Linux also. This require additional space in the same PC. So, is it possible to access and work with files in Dropbox#Windows7 without installing Dropbox in Ubuntu (which is installed in the same PC parelelly)?.
You can access windows disks in linux, you just need to map it correctly. Then you can do whatever you want with files. But dropbox magic will not work until you load windows again.
Only when you bootup from windows again, since it is dropbox app that does syncing. What you may do is to deploy dropbox on both windows and linux, but point them to the same data folder. Still there could be some problems with text files, as windows and linux are not treating line endings the same way. So if a file was synchronized in windows, it will have windows endings, and vice-versa.
Maybe you could configure a remote filesystem on a USB-Stick so both your systems can access on it and you have a directory where dropbox stores the files.
Look here: https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox/Idea-Portable-Dropbox-folder-on-flash-drive/idi-p/122804
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I have installed Ubuntu 20.04 from Microsoft Store as a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and I need to access the system files of it from Windows Explorer and access it as a separate Partition (as C:,D:).
Anyone know how to do this? Thanks.
I think what you are searching for is Linux File System. On WSL, as you have installed Ubuntu, You Can find it in,
C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.Ubuntu20.04onWindows\LocalState\rootfs
I just recently set up WSL with Ubuntu 18.04 on my new windows computer. I know that to access my windows files from the linux side, the C:\ drive is mapped to /mnt/c. When I try to cd to /mnt/c/Users/malik22/Desktop, however, I get a No such file or directory error. I access my window Downloads, Documents, etc. just fine from the linux side, but for some reason Desktop seems to be the only one not present.
I've been using WSL for over a year now on my old computer and have never run into this issue. Any ideas?
If your Desktop is backed up in your OneDrive it won't show up in your user directory.
You can either create a symbolic link as mentioned below by #raghav-malik or else choose to not back up your Desktop (you can instead back up your Documents directory).
I have dual boot - Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 16.04. I use Dropbox on both systems. I use the same folder using ubuntu fstab.
Which file in Windows AppData contains Selective Sync config? I want to symlink it to Ubuntu. Is it possible?
I have crouton running on a chromebook 11 with ubuntu precise in it. I am looking for a way to sync files in some folders in the ubuntu chroot with Google Drive. I am thinking I can create a link between the mounted chroot partition and a sync'ed folder in the Chrome OS, but I can't find where the synced Google Drive folder is in Chrome OS.
Could anyone please help?
Bottom line I want to sync files I create in the chroot to an online service, Google Drive or Dropbox, whatever works.
Thank you in advance
SUMMARY
The best way to sync files (code, in my case) is to use git and bitbucket/github. Install git in the chroot, and sync the code into the Downloads folder so it can be accessed from both ChromeOS and the chroot (and compiled and ran locally on both computers). I stored all other files in Google Drive so they could be accessed from ChromeOS, other computers, and the chroot.
Here are the options I looked into, but did not end up using
Accessing the Google Drive cache directly on the chromebook
Google drive in the chrome os stores the file data in
/home/chronos/user/GCache/v1/files
However, it does not name the files how they are named in google drive (it names them by some uuid, and stores meta in another folder).
3rd party tools to mount Google Drive folder in linux
https://github.com/dsoprea/GDriveFS
I was able to get GDriveFS working, but it was slow and chmod does not work in its file system. The permission are all static at 666, so programs will not execute.
https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse/
I was not able to get ocamlfuse working on an arm Chromebook.
https://github.com/Grive/grive
I was able to get Grive working, but it has some problems and hasn't been updated in over a year. Would not recommend if there is a chance of merge conflicts.
it seems that it's possible to run a web server on a USB stick using XAMPP, but would this work on Windows, Mac and Linux? I want to run a PHP/MySQL demo site which can be used cross platform. Any advice appreciated!
XAMPP is a windows compiled application
Unless you use an emulator you might struggle to get it working on linux or mac
Consider a diffrent portable webserver for each OS
XAMPP is a cross platform (hence the 'X'), Apache MySQL PHP and Perl application. While the application runs on Windows, Linux and Mac, each installation is a different set of binary files for the given platform. While there is a Windows version that can run a from a relative path on a USB stick; no such version exists for Mac or Linux at this time. The installation location for the later operating systems must be on the system's hard drive at /Applications/XAMPP on Mac.