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Alek S.
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10 years ago

Datastores / End of life / Questions

Is there any page I can go to check the service status for the dropbox datastore servers (I know in the process of being deprecated). Has there been any reduction in the available servers or whatnot ...
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Greg-DB
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10 years ago

Hi Alek, the Datastore API and SDKs were deprecated in April 2015 and are no longer supported. The Datastore API itself will continue running until April 2016. You can find the full announcement here:

https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/2015/04/deprecating-the-sync-and-datastore-apis/

We haven't made any further announcements regarding the timeline or how exactly the API will be disabled. For important announcements, make sure you have "Dropbox API announcements" enabled on:

https://www.dropbox.com/account#settings

Besides that, be sure to keep an eye on the blog for new posts:

https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/

(There's an RSS feed here: https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/feed/ )

I can't make any promises right now regarding how the SDKs will behave once the API is disabled, but once the Datastore API is disabled, any further Datastore API calls will fail, so datastore updates will not sync between devices. The SDKs do cache data locally though, so you may be able to continue accessing the local, cached data.

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