

Outlined below, and all parts that require user input are highlighted.Ħ 13:43:58 NOTICE: Config file "/home/me/.config/rclone/nf" not found - using defaultsĮnter a string value. Remote “dropbox-for-friends” – the name will be used to refer to it later during theĬonfiguration of the dataset we want to publish). Prompt through a ~2 minute configuration of the remote (here we will name the Running this command will a guide you with an interactive The installation instructions are straightforwardĪnd the installation is quick if you are on a Unix-based system (macOS or anyĪfterwards, run rclone config from the command line to configure rclone to
Command e dropbox install#
The first step is to install rclone on your computer.

It is a command line program to sync files and directories to andįrom a large number of commercial providers 1. To set up Dropbox as a third party storage provide you need to configure a special-remote called To make this as convenient as possible, we will also set up a publication dependency between the two. The many publicly available DataLad datasets such as the longnow podcasts.Īs an example, let’s walk through all necessary steps to publish the DataLad-101 dataset to GitHub, and its file contents to Dropbox. Install a dataset from and successfully run datalad get, just as with What you would like to do is to provide your friend with a URL to To the same computational infrastructure, and there are also many annexed files, e.g., the PDFs in your dataset, that you’d like your friend to have but that can’t be simply computed or automatically obtained from web sources.

You and your friend, however, do not have access After all you know about DataLad, you’d like to let more people Let’s say you’d like to share your complete DataLad-101 dataset withĪ friend overseas. Walk-through: Dropbox as a special remote ¶
