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Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Unofficial MEGAsync Nemo Extension Available For Download

A couple of days ago we wrote about the new MEGA Linux desktop client (MEGASync), which consists on two parts: a tray / appindicator application and a Nautilus extension and unfortunately, they didn't release a Nemo extension, even though the code is pretty much the same as for the Nautilus extension.

Well, the MEGAsync source was briefly available for download so I decided to convert the Nautilus extension to Nemo and package it as a deb so both Ubuntu 14.04 users who use Nemo with Unity patches as well as Linux Mint 17 (Cinnamon) users can use it easily.

The MEGAsync Nemo file manager extension lets you see the sync status of your MEGA folder (using emblems) and also, it can be used to copy a file share link or upload a file outside your MEGA folder to MEGA.co.nz.

Here are a couple of screenshots with the MEGAsync Nemo extension:

Notes:

you can't install both the MEGAsync Nautilus and Nemo extensions in the same time. Installing the MEGAsync Nemo extension will automatically remove the Nautilus extension!
the MEGAsync Nemo extension depends on the main MEGAsync for Linux app so firstly install that before installing the Nemo extension.

Download MEGAsync Nemo file manager extension

Since MEGAsync is freeware, I couldn't upload the package to the failsdownloads Nemo PPA. However, you can download it using the links below (it only works with Ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10 / Linux Mint 17!):

Once installed, restart Nemo (you'll be prompted to do this after installing the package, but it can fail sometimes):

nemo -q

That's it.

Download MEGAsync For Linux Desktops (MEGA.co.nz Linux Sync Client)

MEGA is a cloud storage and file hosting service founded by Kim Dotcom (who was also behind Megaupload), which offers 50 GB of storage for free, along with various paid plans. More about MEGA.

The mega.co.nz website doesn't offer a sync client for Linux desktops however, MEGAsync for Linux showed up on their servers recently (without any official announcement about this).

Update: MEGA has officially announced the MEGAsync Linux client. The announcement mentions that they plan to release the MEGAsync source code under an open-source license.

The new MEGAsync for Linux is written in Qt, is available for Ubuntu and derivatives (14.04, 12.04 as well as for two Ubuntu versions that aren't supported by Canonical any more: 13.10 and 12.10), Debian (6 and 7), Fedora (19 and 20) and openSUSE (12.2, 12.3 and 13.1) and it consists of a tray/appindicator application as well as an optional Nautilus extension.

MEGAsync for Linux comes with most features available for other similar tools (like Dropbox): the tray icon displays the sync status (and if you use the Nautilus extension, the files have emblems which show their sync status), it supports selective sync, you can use proxies, you can copy a public link for a file via the Nautilus context menu and so on.

There are also some extra features: you can upload a link to MEGA directly from the tray/appindicator app and import links to your MEGA account:

There are two pretty important features that aren't supported by MEGA / MEGAsync though: it doesn't handle file conflicts and file versioning however, you can access overwritten/changed files in the SyncDebris folder (in the Rubbish Bin).

Here are a few more MEGAsync Linux client screenshots (running under Ubuntu 14.04):

Megasync under Debian:

Download MEGAsync for Linux

Download MEGAsync for Linux (binaries available for Ubuntu* and derivatives, Debian, Linux Mint, Fedora, CentOS, openSUSE and Red Hat)

Update: an unofficial MEGAsync extension for Nemo file manager (Ubuntu 14.04 / Linux Mint 17) is available HERE.

Arch Linux users can install MEGAsync via AUR: MEGAsync | MEGAsync Nautilus extension

Note that at least on Ubuntu, after installing MEGAsync, the MEGA repository is added automatically (so you should receive automatic MEGAsync updates).

* If you use Linux Mint, download the Ubuntu debs.

seen @ lffl.org & muylinux.com