Allow games to be uploaded via Dropbox

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I see that you allow save files to be transferred via Dropbox; would it be 
possible to upload games that way as well, or are there non-technical reasons 
why that's not a good idea?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by carlton...@gmail.com on 14 Apr 2011 at 4:47

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I didn't add this in the first incarnation of Dropbox support because I think 
it needs more thought than just auto-syncing a folder, because games are 
considerably larger files and I don't want to waste people's bandwidth, or risk 
overwriting one version of a game with a different version accidentally.

I'm thinking something along the lines of a dialog at launch like "The 
following Story files were found in your /Frotz/Games Dropbox folder which are 
not present in Frotz.  Select any you would like to download and press OK.", 
followed by list of available files, an OK button and a checkbox "Don't show 
this dialog again until new files are available".     Game files would only be 
downloaded, not uploaded, as I don't really see a case for that being useful.

Original comment by spath...@gmail.com on 14 Apr 2011 at 5:05

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I've decided this just isn't worth doing.

Game files are a lot bigger than save files and I don't want to be using up 
people's 3G data plans by trying to sync them automatically, and presenting a 
popup to ask the user could be annoying.

But really, the main reason is that this is already easily doable with one 
extra step.   Just copy the game you want to to DropBox, and then use the 
Dropbox App to launch the game in Frotz.  (Frotz will keep a copy of the game 
file so you can then delete the game from Dropbox if you want.)

Original comment by spath...@gmail.com on 10 Jun 2011 at 8:47

• Changed state: WontFix

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Oh, I didn't realize you could do that with the Dropbox app; I agree, that's a 
fine workaround.

Original comment by carlton...@gmail.com on 11 Jun 2011 at 1:29