Make subfolders in the "dbinbox" folder about dbinbox HOT 14 CLOSED

I was just thinking about doing this, actually.

What if you could specify a sub-directory path on any dbinbox URLs? Just add another textbox at the top that lets you specify a directory (that could be specified by a URL parameter).

I don't love multiple URLs, but I can't articulate why...

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In my particular case I want different groups of people to send files to a "bucket" that have a name that makes sense to them (project name, name of the couple who got married). Those buckets happen to be connected to my dropbox. Those groups have nothing in common and don't need to know that they share a dropbox.

If you want to go with subdirs in the urls I guess the most natural would be to have http://dbinbox.com/x/some_sub_dir. That is technically speaking "multiple URL:s:", though.

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I love /x/some_sub_dir that you could make up on the fly. That makes a lot of sense.

That way if you wanted to just invent a project to give someone a URL for, you could.

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Wanna take a crack at it? I don't know that I'll have time for another few weekends.

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I also like the idea of having subfolders. I already created a working filesharing solution with dropbox in our company. This would be the missing part to get files back to individual users. Subfolders would really be a killer feature!
Thanks for your awesome work!

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Done!

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very nice job! I will not be impertinent, but do you think it might be possible to allow uploads only to a folder that is present? e.g if I have a folder dropbox/apps/dbinbox/user1 and give someone the link to it, he/she should be able to upload but if he/she tries to upload to a non-existant folder it should not be possible. - anyway very good job!

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Hi, I know the topic is 9 month old but I would like to know why subfolders are not working on the actual version of http://dbinbox.com ?
Thanks

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@loric- Subfolders are kept consistent when uploading from the command line tool, and by adding the subfolder structure after your username in the URL (ex: dbinbox.com/username/some/subfolder/structure).

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Oh okay! So there is no way to add subfolders with the web tool by now? I was just looking for a way to set several dbinbox URL's linked to the same Dropbox account. Maybe it's not possible? And that's why I thought that each one can be linked to un specific subfolder in the dbinbox folder like below.
dbinbox.com/myfirstlink -> /Dropbox/Application/dbinbox/myfirstlink/
dbinbox.com/mysecondlink -> /Dropbox/Application/dbinbox/mysecondlink/

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@loric- You'd do that like this:

dbinbox.com/USERNAME/myfirstlink -> /Dropbox/Application/dbinbox/myfirstlink
dbinbox.com/USERNAME/mysecondlink -> /Dropbox/Application/dbinbox/mysecondlink/
dbinbox.com/USERNAME/my/third/link -> /Dropbox/Application/dbinbox/my/third/link/

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Okay thank you. And just to be clear your solution is only correct for the command line tool, that's right?

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For the web too! Visit dbinbox.com/your_username/cats and drop a file in. It'll go in the "cats" subfolder of your dbinbox.

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Oh my bad, I just understand! Thank you

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