How To Build A Dropbox Clone With No Code - Bubble

vivienne · 2020-11-21T23:47:05.317Z

With more content and files being created than ever, cloud-based storage solutions like Dropbox and Google Drive have become essential products to both users and businesses.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://bubble.io/blog/build-dropbox-clone/

chris.charette241 · 2021-02-20T04:32:55.585Z

Wonderful instruction, and works great but I do have a couple questions.

In the adding of files, there’s also the adding of a File-content entry, but in the deleting of files, there’s nothing about cleaning up the File-content table. Was there a reason for leaving that data behind?

I’ve been working with this setup and found that the File-content table keeps growing but I also can’t determine the benefit of having it. I found it difficult to delete because identifying it means you need to search for it and there was no easy way to do that. I ended up using the workflow action “Set a thing’s slug” for the File entry to match the unique ID of the File-content entry during the file adding workflow. This gave me something to key off of in the “Search for” field of the “Delete a thing” but I felt it was a bit of a workaround rather than good practice.

mokhachane · 2021-02-20T07:18:10.583Z

I noticed that every time a clone build gets released, people always have similar issues with the build…but the bubble team never respond to the questions

chris.charette241 · 2021-02-22T19:52:57.575Z

Apparently this is true…

naidulives · 2022-10-11T12:54:43.380Z

OMG I was about to buya template. Thank you guys! This is a big U-Turn. No support, No sale.