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MacDropUpdate is an automatic updater for Mac OS X that can automatically download, install and update your Dropbox to the latest forum build of Dropbox.
What's New
Version 2.0.8:
- Fixes a problem that prevented Growl notifications from appearing.
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MacDropUpdate is an automatic updater for Mac OS X that can automatically download, install and update your Dropbox to the latest forum build of Dropbox.
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Dmitriusa reviewed on 22 Mar 2012
Wizened reviewed on 19 Jan 2012
I suspect being on a geriatric Mac with PPCs the new version is incompatible?
How can I un-install please?
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I'm sorry that you've been having issues with MacDropUpdate. I see no reason why the latest version should not work on your PPC computer. MacDropUpdate isn't a particularly complex app, so you should be fine running it on an older computer.
I advise you update.
Sebastian
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Steven_Sky reviewed on 17 Jan 2012
One thing though: it should be possible to change the time it updates.
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Eji reviewed on 04 Jan 2012
Doesn't seem to use a lot of resources and hasn't ever given me much hassle. Many of the niggles — like Growl notifications that hovered indefinitely or a superfluous menubar presence — have been addressed the longer it's been around.
One thing still gets me, though. It seems like every time I return to my computer, my Growl history tells me that I don't need a new version of DropBox. I'd really like to customize MDU so that it only updates once a day or once a week, since experimental forum builds really only appear once every two weeks at the most.
I've given it 3.5 stars on features since it's a one-trick pony and could use some basic GUI preferences — but top marks in all other categories.
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thightower reviewed on 28 Dec 2011
Well its feature complete it does its sole job plain and simply and thats to update Dropbox to the next beta release. It checks for an update every 6 hours. There is no work on your part. Just launch it once and forget it.
Its value to me is great I run all the betas and this updates me in the background silently. Its a free app from the developer so thats a major plus. Having said that I would gladly pay for it if I needed to. its that valuable to me. I have donated to the developer.
As for stability. Its rock solid on my system. I should say systems I have it running on 7 Macs.
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Dperugini reviewed on 03 Dec 2011
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As I promised the Sebastian (the Developer), I have re-evaluated 'MacDropUpdate' beyond version 2.0.5, with which I appeared to have a bit of strange behavior that left me cautious about installing and using it. Sebastian courteously contacted me assured me that the behavior I was experiencing was not part of his experience with the application. He encouraged me to
I am happy to report that with both versions 2.0.6 and 2.0.7, NONE of the strange dialogs resurfaced. Apparently, the strangeness lay in some corruption on my computer, for when I reinstalled my Snow Leopard Operating System and installed 2.0.6, the symptoms never showed themselves. I now have updated to Lion and just installed MacDropUpdate 2.0.7 and everything seems just fine.
My apologies to Sebastian for panicking and falsely reporting what I thought was suspicious behavior. I sincerely hope my assumptions did not adversely affect his download count.
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Marioz reviewed on 03 Dec 2011
Implementation of Growl is very useful to understand what's going on.......
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Llongley reviewed on 09 Nov 2011
Any way the one thing I would very much like to see added is the ability to specify the update intervals. In other words let me specify to check for updates once daily as opposed to every few hours as it is now. The constant popups can be very annoying when it jumps up in the middle of your workflow.
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Dperugini reviewed on 03 Oct 2011
That's a bit too creepy for my taste. 'CleanApp', here I come!
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I don't quite understand what you're complaining about. When you say that the wiki "wasn't good enough", I don't quite understand what it wasn't good enough for.
MacDropUpdate 2 does not install itself unless you have specifically gone ahead and downloaded it from somewhere.
MacDropUpdate 2 does include a a feature to update itself, however it will never update itself unless you choose to - it asks you if you want to update.
You most certainly do have the ability to interrupt the flow of events - just quit the app!
I hope this makes things clearer.
Thanks,
Sebastian (Developer of MacDropUpdate)
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I appreciate your immediate feedback - you sound sincere in your conviction that the application should not have acted in the manner I experienced. Perhaps there was something quirky going on my end.
I noticed that you have a new version posted here at MacUpdate - I'll download that and give it a try. I was traveling earlier and did not have access to my home computer where I have more resources (screen capture apps, etc.) to better work with you to document the issues I detected with your earlier. If I can reproduce what I detected as the problems with the old version (2.0.5), I'll try to screen capture the process and contact you directly. I'll also install 2.0.6 and see if the problem persists in that version.
I do hope that there is no real problem with your 'MacDropUpdate' - if that's the case, I'll definitely write a retractive review or, if possible, remove my low-star review.
Regards,
David
Have you had any luck with the new version? If you'd like to contact me directly to discuss this issue, please feel free to use the "contact me" link con my website: http://www.zibity.com
Thanks,
Sebastian
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Kankei71 reviewed on 27 Sep 2011
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thightower rated on 28 Dec 2011
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Dochoz rated on 02 Dec 2011
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hced rated on 03 Jul 2011