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Share on Dropbox – Nautilus Script

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Written on May 07, 2010
Open Source, programming

To install this script just download the file , place it under your home ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts , make it executable and then kill nautilus. Below are copy&paste instructions to install from terminal cd ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts wget “http://www.andreaolivato.net/Share on Dropbox” chmod 755 “./Share on Dropbox” killall nautilus Please note that I manage duplicate files adding an incremental number [...]

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