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Martin Baker
Explorer | Level 3
5 years ago

How to stop syncing using a script?

I have seen the original question on this.  The answer is not practical.  While my need is different, I do also need this very basic feature - switch off and then later switch on syncing via a comman...
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Martin Baker's avatar
Martin Baker
Explorer | Level 3
5 years ago

Greg

Thanks for the reply

 

I really need the facility and it is a show stopper.  With drop box active it crashes large installs.

 

I need to compare the damage dropbox of crashing my basic day to day work 100% of the time and me issuing a killtask on dropbox and then restarting it 

 

What is the recommended way progamatically to force dropbox to close down completely - it obviously must be possible otherwise dropbox could not handle system restarts.  Then what is the recommended way to restart it and get it to check itself as being OK - again progamatically.

 

If need be I can sety up a task to run as system administrator

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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

Thanks for the feedback. I'm afraid I can't be of much help though, as Dropbox doesn't offer an official interface for programmatically interacting with the desktop client like this. 

 

While I don't have any API information to share on this, you may want to contact support directly for any help with the client that they may be able to offer.

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    Martin Baker
    Explorer | Level 3
    5 years ago

    OK Greg thanks - I have done as you suggest

     

    I will copy the result back here if it helps

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