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Kyri
Explorer | Level 4
7 years ago

Check sync status of dropbox app, programmatically via c++ or api

I wonder if it is possible to tell when dropbox is syncing programmatically, ideally indirectly via c++ for example let's assume that when dropbox is syncing it writes a tinly .txt or .xml etc file...
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Moesslacher
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Please count me also in as someone who would love to see an API to check the sync status of DropBox. I am surprised that such a general requirement was not implemented yet...

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Friedrich

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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
2 years ago

Moesslacher, This "new" feature is implemented long time ago actually. It's just not document properly and not officially supported. 🤷 That's it.

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