#maestral — Public Fediverse posts
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Fin de parcours pour Maestral, le client Dropbox minimaliste http://dlvr.it/TTNqc4 #Maestral #Dropbox
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Fin de parcours pour Maestral, le client Dropbox minimaliste http://dlvr.it/TTNqc4 #Maestral #Dropbox
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This Is A Bummer. Open Source Dropbox Client Maestral Will Shut Down
#Tech #Maestral #Dropbox
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This Is A Bummer. Open Source Dropbox Client Maestral Will Shut Down
I would say Monday always seems to bring bad news, but bad news seems to show up on any day that ends in “y” lately. But this is a Monday and this is bad news.
Maestral, an open source client for Dropbox has ceased to be maintained as of the end of June 2026 according to the develper on the app’s website. Hat tip to John Gruber who posted the news this morning, and for posting this quote from the developer.
As of 2026-07-28, this project is archived. It’s been a fun challenge to develop a syncing client, but unfortunately, I find too little time to invest in Maestral these days. I’ve also moved away from using Dropbox myself.
Maestral will still remain usable in the medium term, but will no longer be actively maintained or receive updates.
I’ve been using Maestral for quite some time to manage file syncing on Dropbox, primarily because I despise Dropbox’s own apps. Maestral is a far cleaner and less resource intensive experience, and has more than served my needs syncing files back and forth. So, I’ll either have to bite the bullet and swallow some pretty foul tasting software again, or find a different solution.
The different solution will be a difficult one as I work with a variety of theaters and clients, all of which using different file syncing and sharing solutions, (Google’s solution being the runner up to Dropbox) so I have to keep up with most of the file syncing services out there.
All shows must close at some point, but it’s a shame to see this one posted it’s closing notice. I wouldn’t count on any new ones appearing on the horizon.
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This Is A Bummer. Open Source Dropbox Client Maestral Will Shut Down
I would say Monday always seems to bring bad news, but bad news seems to show up on any day that ends in “y” lately. But this is a Monday and this is bad news.
Maestral, an open source client for Dropbox has ceased to be maintained as of the end of June 2026 according to the develper on the app’s website. Hat tip to John Gruber who posted the news this morning, and for posting this quote from the developer.
As of 2026-07-28, this project is archived. It’s been a fun challenge to develop a syncing client, but unfortunately, I find too little time to invest in Maestral these days. I’ve also moved away from using Dropbox myself.
Maestral will still remain usable in the medium term, but will no longer be actively maintained or receive updates.
I’ve been using Maestral for quite some time to manage file syncing on Dropbox, primarily because I despise Dropbox’s own apps. Maestral is a far cleaner and less resource intensive experience, and has more than served my needs syncing files back and forth. So, I’ll either have to bite the bullet and swallow some pretty foul tasting software again, or find a different solution.
The different solution will be a difficult one as I work with a variety of theaters and clients, all of which using different file syncing and sharing solutions, (Google’s solution being the runner up to Dropbox) so I have to keep up with most of the file syncing services out there.
All shows must close at some point, but it’s a shame to see this one posted it’s closing notice. I wouldn’t count on any new ones appearing on the horizon.
Thanks for reading. You can subscribe to this blog if you care to. You can also find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above. This site does not use affilate links.
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So Mac experts, or commandline wizards, I’m using #maestral for my dropbox client. However, anytime I want to use their command line tool, if I copy and paste a file name into terminal, it puts the entire path, including/volumes/external drive, etc. in the command. Then I have to go to the beginning and delete everything from slash.maestral back so it only has the path to the file minus the path to the maestral folder. There’s gotta be an automated way to get rid of that data… Any suggestions?
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So Mac experts, or commandline wizards, I’m using #maestral for my dropbox client. However, anytime I want to use their command line tool, if I copy and paste a file name into terminal, it puts the entire path, including/volumes/external drive, etc. in the command. Then I have to go to the beginning and delete everything from slash.maestral back so it only has the path to the file minus the path to the maestral folder. There’s gotta be an automated way to get rid of that data… Any suggestions?
