Heads up: mobileOrg has stopped working with Dropbox

Heads up: mobileOrg has stopped working with Dropbox

[Eric S Fraga]

Hello all,

Dropbox seems to have changed their system in some way and mobileorg has
stopped working for me.  Has anybody else experienced the same?  Dropbox
did pop up a less than informative message on my phone saying that
the support for access by 3rd party apps had changed with effect from 28
September 2017 (which coincides with mobileorg ceasing to work...).

I've changed to using ssh which is probably a better route but thought
I'd highlight this.

Thanks,
eric

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Re: Heads up: mobileOrg has stopped working with Dropbox

[Rob Davenport]

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Yes, I see it now too.  It was noted as an issue on the mobileorg-android
github site here over a month ago:
https://github.com/matburt/mobileorg-android/issues/501

It looks like Dropbox shut down handling their v1 API and it would take
updating mobileorg-android (and the iOS one) to the new v2.  I looked at it
a bit but it would take a while to understand the changes needed to try to
make them.  I was hoping the author would be able to do something but
nothing so far.  I believe Dropbox announced this would be happening many
months ago (a year?) so it's not like there was no warning.

If you've got ssh working then you're probably OK.  I don't have a ssh
server to use so I may try to look into it again if I get time, but I still
hope the author will be able to do something about it as I'm sure they
could do it much faster.

On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Eric S Fraga <esflists@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Dropbox seems to have changed their system in some way and mobileorg has
> stopped working for me.  Has anybody else experienced the same?  Dropbox
> did pop up a less than informative message on my phone saying that
> the support for access by 3rd party apps had changed with effect from 28
> September 2017 (which coincides with mobileorg ceasing to work...).
>
> I've changed to using ssh which is probably a better route but thought
> I'd highlight this.
>
> Thanks,
> eric
>
> --
> : Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.1.1-78-gfbf47c
>
>

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Re: Heads up: mobileOrg has stopped working with Dropbox

[Eric S Fraga]

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On Saturday, 30 Sep 2017 at 14:31, Rob Davenport wrote:
> Yes, I see it now too.  It was noted as an issue on the mobileorg-android
> github site here over a month ago:
> https://github.com/matburt/mobileorg-android/issues/501

Thanks for the confirmation!  And I probably saw that issue but forgot
about it...

[...]

> If you've got ssh working then you're probably OK.

Yes, it's working fine with ssh, actually better than through Dropbox,
so I'm okay.  But many don't have an ssh server they can use so an
update for Dropbox would, I'm sure, be welcome by many.

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: Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.1.1-78-gfbf47c

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