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Igal Tabachnik's avatar
Igal Tabachnik
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

Control selective sync programmatically

Hello, I'm looking for a way to control selective sync programmatically? There's a certain folder I want to sync, for example, in certain hours of the day. With a cron job, I could instruct select...
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Kieran360's avatar
Kieran360
Helpful | Level 5
6 years ago

Any news on when or if this feature will be added? It's been five years of people asking. Why doesn't dropbox have somewhere we can request features?

Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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6 years ago

Kieran360 Thanks for your post! Unfortunately I don't have any news on if or when Dropbox may decide to implement and release the ability to programmatically control the selective sync feature. We appreciate the feedback though, and forum posts like this are a good place to send feature requests. 

  • b9chris's avatar
    b9chris
    Helpful | Level 6
    6 years ago

    Dropbox: We're waiting for your community feedback!

    Community: (provides feedback)

    Dropbox: lol

  • Kieran360's avatar
    Kieran360
    Helpful | Level 5
    6 years ago

    "Forum posts like this are a good place to send feature requests"? Fourteen people have asked for this feature over five years and there's no intention on the part of dropbox to develop it. I'd be better off writing a letter to Santa.

     

    I've been a dropbox customer for nine years and I can say that dropbox absolutely do not care what people who use dropbox actually want, so long as the money keeps rolling in.

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