From the "+Choose Files" button, how are you able to choose multiple files to upload? If I hold the Shift key, it doesn't seem to allow multiple file.

I know there's the drag your files option, but it doesn't seem to work for me. It just opens it up in the browser. I have IE9.

Multiple users (uploaders) have indicated that they don't know if their files were added or not. The majority of them are not tech-savvy, so that has a weight, but a well-designed product takes time and real-world testing. I'm thinking that some kind of modal (timed or display until user acknowledges it) and/or alert bubble that is displayed when all files have completed their uploads would be a good improvement.

As a person with a lot of experience, the green checkmarks are sufficient, but for perhaps the majority of users, they need a little clearer re-assurance that their files are uploaded.

Obviously this isn't something that should happen often, but if the user uploads a file with no contents, the file gets uploaded properly but the server responds with HTTP 500 Internal Server Error.

1. Open http://dbinbox.com/whatever in any browser (Tested with Chrome 24 and Firefox 17 on Mac, IE 9 on Windows 7)
2. Use "Choose Files" to upload a zero-byte file.

Results:

• Chrome 24 (Mac): The upload's status text changes to a red "Internal Server Error". The file does get uploaded successfully. The Chrome inspector shows that the server responded with HTTP 500.
• Firefox 17 (Mac): The upload's status text changes to a red "Internal Server Error". The file does get uploaded successfully.
• IE 9 (Windows 7): The upload's status text changes to a red "TypeError: Unable to get value of the property '0': object is null or undefined". The does get uploaded successfully. The developer tools shows that the server responded with HTTP 500.

From robert s. on https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=3525&page=3 :

hi,
if it´s possible that you can save messages, to DB

it would be cool if you can create a message URL like this:

http://dbinbox.com/USERNAME?password=PW&massage=THIS%20IS%20> MY%20MESSAGE%20TO%20YOU
http://dbinbox.com/USERNAME?password=PW&massage=THIS IS MY > MESSAGE TO YOU

or a possibility to add a note with a shortcut to:

http://note.dbinbox.com/USERNAME?password=PW

witch shows a message field and a send button. Optimized > for mobiles.

greetings from stuttgart

This would also make it easier to do basic logging, which is more annoying to do with a POST.

Going to the settings page gives the aforementioned error. Is this expected? I am simply navigating to the http://dbinbox.com/username/admin page and getting this error.

I wonder if it could be possible to upload an image from a public link instead of using a local file ?
Per example « $ dbinbox USERNAME https://d339l1rkauam1y.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/logotype1.png » will copy the linked image to the USERNAME’s dropbox. This improvement could be cool !

I think it would be nice to add an explicit license to the repo, since lots of people seem to be finding dbinbox useful.

@christiangenco My guess is that your intention was "do whatever you want, just don't sue me", so maybe the MIT license would be a good fit?

Nginx reports error 404 on www.dbinbox.com/smile but not on dbinbox.com/smile If I'm not mistaken, you can fix it by adding an additional DNS (A) record for www.

I signed up for dbinbox and it works great. Then I changed the name on my dropbox account from my personal name to my business name in dropbox settings.

When I follow my dbinbox link it still shows my personal name.

I tried deleting dbinbox account so I could sign up again in the hope that it would take the new name (hence the other issue I listed on Github) but that doesn't work :(

I keep getting "Service unavailable" when trying to upload on my Heroku instance.

I've tried this on multiple computers now. Following these steps on Internet Explorer 8 or 9 causes the upload to fail:

1. Do not open the developer tools during the IE session.
2. Visit http://dbinbox.com/whatever
3. Click "Choose files"
4. Choose a non-empty file.
5. Observe that no file is uploaded. If you re-enable script debugging (Internet options / Advanced / uncheck 'Disable script debugging (Internet Explorer)'), then you see the error "SCRIPT5009: 'console' is undefined" in app.js, line 53, character 9.

Based on this Stack Overflow question, it looks like IE leaves window.console undefined if developer tools are turned off, so accessing console is an error. I don't have a Ruby environment to try this with (which is why I don't have a pull request), but I think adding something like this at the top of the page will take care of it:

<script type="text/javascript">
  if (!window.console) console = { log: function() { } }
</script>

I think this is just a small bug/fix. When sending a message "testmessage" you get the following result in a single line on windows notepad.exe.

Uploaded 2013-08-06 01:33:35 -0400 from 127.0.0.1testmessage

With other editors that can deal with UNIX new line it looks ok

Uploaded 2013-08-06 01:33:35 -0400 from 127.0.0.1

testmessage

Maybe just change the line feed to work on both systems?

On http://dbinbox.com/admin, clicking on Save with an empty access code leads to an Internal Server Error and crashes the system.

Since URLs are case-insensitive the majority of the time, it would probably be a good idea to make that the default here. It can cause confusion for users (especially the less-technically inclined).

Perhaps a checkbox in the settings to make the URL case-sensitive could be added, but it's probably at least a good idea to keep case-_in_sensitivity the default for new (and depending on how you've written the database) old accounts.

when i type into the text message area and type upload--it doesn't seem to transfer over?

Related: is there a way to (1) send an email when someone uploads a file or (2) have someone add a text file with message with their name/contact info?

It would be helpful to have a way to track who is uploading and when uploads happen. Dropbox's rss feed is a blunt tool to track updates (you can't just specify the dbinbox.com folder).

also: awesome tool. thanks so much for it!

B

Just an enhancement...
I chose a username to link to my dropbox account. I was playing around and testing things, which included removing the app from my dropbox. However, now I can't re-link my dropbox to the username I originally chose because that username is considered already taken, even though it is no longer linked to any account.

Syntax should be:

$ dbinbox USERNAME FILENAME(S)
$ dbinbox USERNAME MESSAGE

If you enable an access code to dbinbox.com the password will be added to the URL (I think because of http-get). It would be better to use post and not show the password in the URL since it will be visible in any log aso.

?password=1234 <--- bad

From robert s. on https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=3525&page=3 :

hi,
if it´s possible that you can save messages, to DB

it would be cool if you can create a message URL like this:

http://dbinbox.com/USERNAME?password=PW&massage=THIS%20IS%20> MY%20MESSAGE%20TO%20YOU
http://dbinbox.com/USERNAME?password=PW&massage=THIS IS MY > MESSAGE TO YOU

or a possibility to add a note with a shortcut to:

http://note.dbinbox.com/USERNAME?password=PW

witch shows a message field and a send button. Optimized > for mobiles.

greetings from stuttgart

This would also make it easier to do basic logging, which is more annoying to do with a POST.

When resizing the screen width below 785px, and the mediaquery kicks in, the "Choose files" and "Send message" buttons is no longer clickable. It is due to the fileupload-progress div which is overflowing the floating buttons.

The fix is simply to add a z-index to the inputs in question, so the buttons float on top the fileupload-progress div. You might also want to clear the upload-progress so it doesn't flow on top now we're at it:

#show_send_message,
#upload_button {
   float: right;
   z-index: 2;
}

.file-upload-progress {
  clear: both;
}

It would be awesome if you could fix this, so dbInbox would also work on smartphones. :)

Thank you for a very nice web service. :)

somebody at Dropbox forum asked a question about dbinbox https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=3525&page=2&replies=61#post-518589

Does dbinbox have any file size limitations?

thanks.

Chris

Hi! First of all, thanks for a great service, I only just discovered it recently, and I'm using it tomorrow for my in-laws' 25th anniversary celebration, to let the guests upload their photos as easy as nothing.

Today, when accessing the site, I get "502 Bad Gateway" - I can see that this has been an issue before, but should be resolved by now?

Thanks again for a great piece of work!

I successfully set up the instance on Heroku but the app works on my iPhone with the desktop design whereas it appears with the mobile design on dbinbox.com
Can you fix it ?

The issue is back as of this morning.

The app says "Public dbinboxes can be optionally passphrase protected [Coming Soon]", so it seems this is a feature you want, too.

the "Send Message" box just confuses people. Because the message and the files actions are two seperate procedures and the button for the text message says "upload .txt", I find a lot of people are just uploading the message and no file.

I suggest do away with the "send message" and "upload.txt" buttons and just have a text box that people can fill in

or make it clearer that the message and file upload are two separate actions

cheers

Is there any reason why? It's travelling in the clear either way, but I think people would be more comfortable if (a) the password field were a password field and (b) the data were POSTed.

Was working yesterday but is down this morning. Could you check please?

I visit my dbinbox page and when I click sign it it takes me to authenticate with dropbox, I allow it and when redirected back to dbinbox.com/admin?uid=xxx&oauth_token=xxx i get "Internal Server Error".

From https://twitter.com/centrist/status/365134206256422912

When I create two different drop URLs, like http://dbinbox.com/x and http://dbinbox.com/y, all files end up in /dbinbox in my Dropbox.

I would like dbinbox to create subfolders, in this case "x" and "y" to keep the different uploads separate.

Currently, if a user unauthenticates, visiting their dbinbox page says the username is taken and the username cannot be reclaimed unless manually deleted. This should happen automatically.

It appears that I can only upload files up to 50M each file. Is there a way to increase this size? I noticed the Dropbox api allows the upload file size up to 150m when using /file_upload and can be larger when using /chunked_upload.

Cheers

When trying to delete my dbinbox account I type in DELETE and click the button and it returns Internal Server Error page.

When uploading a text file via the "send message" interface, the file shows as such:

Uploaded 2013-08-05 05:04:46 -0400 from 127.0.0.1

Your message

This, obviously, is not the IP address it was uploaded from. Seems to be caused by a proxy in front of this application.

When uploading a file with Internet Explorer 9, the browser asks the user whether to open or save the JSON result. Consequently, the user gets a confusing dialog box and the indicators of the upload status never change away from "uploading" and the spinning throbber.

1. Open http://dbinbox.com/whatever in IE 9
2. Use Choose File to upload any non-empty file
3. When the file finishes uploading, the user is asked to open or save a file with a nonsense filename that contains JSON data.

It would be awesome if you could limit the types of files to upload by inputting permitted file extensions in the settings panel. :)

Inspiration see:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12303660/restricting-file-types-in-jquery-file-upload-demo

Hi there,

First off thank you for creating a great addition to run along side my dropbox.

I have recently setup a link for friends to send photos to. Yesterday it was working great but today people are getting a 502 Bad Gateway message when they try to access the link or the home page.

If you could look into this that would be great.

Trying to create a private instance and launch to heroku.

I followed the instructions but heroku labs:enable user-env-compile is deprecated. I tried ignoring it but my deployment gets an internal server error.

http://arcane-depths-9604.herokuapp.com/

It would be wonderful if someone would write a simple HOWTO with steps (for someone who really wants to use this but has little experience with Ruby apps) to get dbinbox working in passenger - from "git clone" all the way to "it works".

I know this is a side project, so sorry to trouble you over it.
Is your site down or are you pulling down the service?

Thanks.

Not sure if I'm right here. I use the dbinbox for a study to select data collection sheets anonymously. My study is running at the moment and I recieved a message from one participant that my dbinbox link is not working. I checked this and recieved the following info: 502 Bad Gateway. What to do about this? I need a stable connection or I mus at least inform my participants what to do if the link is disabled.

This is the message I get when trying to upload

It's not longer live, but tombell wrote a project that would, provided you gave it a heroku account email, spin up a hubot account on heroku (using his bot account) and programmatically reassign the new heroku project to your own account. Seemed like a really interesting model

https://github.com/germc/hubot-factory

The shortname for dbinbox.com is nice, but I think privacy and dependability might be the main concerns if you'd like to see more uptake :) I'm sure people would still appreciate having your service available at dbinbox.mydomain.com or whatever

Anyhow, despite how cool it is, I don't plan to use your service myself, so it's just a suggestion! (Not PR unfortunately)

If you end up with a trailing slash after the username, Sinatra throws an error.

Hello,

I set up my dbinbox and linked it to my drop box account but now I am moving to a new job. I changed the user information in my drop box account for the new person (i.e. her first and last name, her email, etc.). At first, dbinbox also changed. It had her name but now it's back to showing mine. Can you help me with this? Thanks!

Liz

For "pro" accounts, tie the Dropbox uid to multiple dbinbox usernames with definable names. These seperate usernames could have configurable subfolders.

It would seem useful to me to have a single-use URL that I could give to a user. Maybe something like http://dbinbox.com/username/somerandomtoken that would expire immediately after its first use.

Hi again :-)

I have a problem uploading anything when I use IE. I've tested it on two computers on two different connections, both using Internet Explorer 10 (version: 10.0.9200.16599) on Windows 8.

Whenever i drag something onto the "drag your file(s) here to upload" field, IE just opens the file instead of uploading it. When i try clicking "Choose files", nothing happens.

I am able to press the "Send message"-button succesfully, and no problem sending the message either.