[josetaza]

Hi all,

A new (test) version of Dbmc is available. It includes a xbmc service for synchronizing files from Dropbox to your local system.

Important: If you are on a platform, for which the native Dropbox Application is available, use that! That is a much better working, more stable and more safe than this service. This service is created for the platforms which are not supported by Dropbox (like Raspbmc).
Check the Dropbox site for their native Application: https://www.dropbox.com/install

Currently this service is a one way synchronization only! From Dropbox to local. So:

• No files will be added/uploaded to Dropbox, which are added locally
  
• No Dropbox items will be removed or changed when removed or changed locally (on a new new sync they will be put back)
  

The Synchronization interval can be set from 5 minutes to 24 hours (1440 minutes). This is the interval the service checks for updates from your dropbox account.
You can also select a specific folder from your dropbox account to synchronize. And thus, you don't necessarily need to synchronize the complete Dropbox (root) folder.
The Dbmc addon is aware of the synchronized folder and will use the locally synchronized files when viewing/listening to them.

Installing
The addon is not automatically updated. (It needs to be tested more first) If you want to test it, you need to download it from here (version 0.6.2):
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmc-dropbox/files
After installing the zip file, XBMC needs to be restarted to activate the new service. Enabling the service can be done from the Dbmc addon-settings menu.
If you have any issues, please let me know.

Known issues:

• No background progressbar to see how far the synchronization is...
  
• It downloads file by file, so it is not fast...
  
• Exiting XBMC while a large file is being synchronized (downloaded), can lockup XBMC (you will need to kill it)