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DroPub 1.0

September 20 tagged osx, application and cocoa. filed under software

DroPubI just released the first official version of DroPub. It’s a mute little OS X application which makes drop boxes and sending stuff to remote servers as simple as it gets — just put a file in a regular folder and you’re done.

Try it out — simply download, double click and create a folder.

Uses SCP (secure copy over SSH) and thus you need to add your SSH key to the remote server in order for things to work. A future version will introduce storing of passwords in the KeyChain.

It normally lives in the menu bar, but can live in the dock also

It normally lives in the menu bar, but can live in the dock also.

Preferences

Virtually unlimited number of folders can be watched and configured.

Further reading: How I wrote DroPub in two days.

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    Jonas Arnklint September 26

    Nice work Rasmus! Small, easy to use. Me like!

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    Og2t November 27

    Rasmus, how to configure login and password for a remote server using SSH?

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    Sheedy March 23

    Hi Rasmus

    I hardly ever ask as I can usually work these things out after a day of tinkering but I’m having problems getting this to work.
    When I drop an image into my drop folder the number in the menu bar just flicks between 1 and 0 (or between 3 and 0 if I put 3 in there).

    I have tried:
    - creating SSH keys with and without pass phrases (both work as expected using the terminal when connecting to my server via SSH)
    - Running an scp command from the terminal replicating the same paths as I have setup in DroPub
    - every possible path combination I can think of in the DroPub preferences

    I get the following errors in the console:
    10-03-23 9:22:39 PM DroPub[1433] DroPub(1433,0xb0103000) malloc: reference count underflow for 0×1059680, break on auto_refcount_underflow_error to debug.
    10-03-23 9:23:36 PM DroPub[1433] [] failed with status 1
    10-03-23 9:19:25 PM DroPub[1401] [] failed to send /Users/me/Desktop/dropTest/denzel.jpeg — reason: Error Domain=DPError Code=1 UserInfo=0×109a4a0 “Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).”

    It looks like (from my limited knowledge) a problem with the SSH key but as I said everything works fine when running the command from the terminal.

    If it helps I’m using a grid server with media temple.

    Can you offer any suggestions?

    Thanks,
    Sheedy

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