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Dropbox, one of my current top 5 favorite apps, has opened voting for their features roadmap. Some neat suggestions so far, but the most cryptic of the top 5 is among the most useful for Mac users: resource fork support!
For those less technical among us, the resource fork is metadata attached to a file that helps Mac OS better understand a file. Things like custom icons, folder info, spotlight comments, openmeta tags, and even file type are defined here. This is how Mac OS can do extension-less file names. This resource fork information is stripped in many backup applications (including Dropbox).
Go vote this feature request up (sign-in required) so we can all rejoice!
Here's the top 5 requests at time of writing:
- Selective sync. Ability to choose which files or folders get sync'd to which computers.
- Watch any folder. Sync folders outside the My/Dropbox folder
- Share folders without forcing other members to lose space.
- Email files to Dropbox.
- Mac resource fork support
TUAWDropbox is taking suggestions on new features, vote for resource fork support! originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.