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Stuart Bell asked

Dropbox size reduction?

Hi - is there a way for you to try and reduce the size of the dropbox sync. I'm sure, like many of us are hitting the 3GB limit now with the firmware and product files. I only use dropbox for Victron syncing, so don't necessarily want to have to pay for extra space.

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Warwick Bruce Chapman avatar image Warwick Bruce Chapman commented ·

Thanks - meant to ask the same. Our installer laptops all stopped syncing.

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mvader (Victron Energy) answered ·

I’ll check, thanks for the headsup! Its primarily the Venus OS images that take a lot of space.


to start, I removed the canvu file. (Almost) Nobody will ever need that and its available for download online as well.


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offgridsolutions answered ·

Hi did this ever get looked at? currently over 4GB or it it available on onedrive as a sync?

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mvader (Victron Energy) answered ·

Yes, but its not easy to reduce. So the conclusion is that people that want the dropbox, mostly professionals, will need to pay the annual costs.

And the intention was to warn for that on the signup page, I’ll check if that was done .

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offgridsolutions avatar image offgridsolutions commented ·
Hi Matthijs, thanks for the answer, I am a professional but already pay for onedrive and iCloud so have one 1TB available there, is there an option for syncing to them?
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mvader (Victron Energy) avatar image mvader (Victron Energy) ♦♦ offgridsolutions commented ·
Hi,


No. Well, technically it would be, but its a lot of work on our side to build the sync and then also to keep it working. Also there are various requirements that we want to meet, like privacy (people having the sync should not have their email or other information exposed to other people having the sync), and so forth.


A great deal of time was spent at this file sync integration already, and this is what is now.


Sorry.

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steggietg avatar image steggietg commented ·

HI.


I have Noticed that my drop box is also full. I want to know if you keep using drop box is there not a way that we can only connect to a drop box with the language we need. The firmware files is small when compared to the product manuals. The product manuals is more than 2.2GB but most product guides have 6 or more Languages of witch i only use one?



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Bert Hennephof answered ·

@mvader (Victron Energy) it would be great if it would be possible in the Professional portal to de-select all languages that are not required for me. That would already save lots of doc-files and have a better overview.
Similar it would be great to de-select equipment that is not important for me.

Hopefully this feature can be implemented.

Thanks, Bert

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Matthias Lange - DE avatar image Matthias Lange - DE ♦ commented ·

Do you really need the datasheets and manuals synchronized via dropbox?
You can also find that easily and quick on the Victron website.

For FW files that's great but for datasheets/manuals I don't really see a benefit for me.

But I have to agree that it would be nice if you at last could select the language you need.

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