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Dropbox on Linux (limitations)?
Looking at using a server (ubuntu) to implement a new feature to a dropbox app I've already built. The feature would be a simple -- user of app selects file, which is then duplicated to a specia...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHi Brian, the Dropbox API itself doesn't offer much in the way of interfacing with the official client unfortunately, so I don't have much to offer on that side, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. You could look into monitoring file events using fsnotify or fanotify or whatever the equivalent is on your system, and just look in the Dropbox folder.
Also, for reference, if you haven't already found it, this help article may be helpful for using the Linux client.
And as far as limitations are concerned, I would also check out the "Case conflicts", "Beginning characters on Mac and Linux", and "Monitoring more than 10,000 folders on Linux" sections in this help article.
Greg-DB wrote:Hi Brian, the Dropbox API itself doesn't offer much in the way of interfacing with the official client unfortunately, so I don't have much to offer on that side, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. You could look into monitoring file events using fsnotify or fanotify or whatever the equivalent is on your system, and just look in the Dropbox folder.
Also, for reference, if you haven't already found it, this help article may be helpful for using the Linux client.
And as far as limitations are concerned, I would also check out the "Case conflicts", "Beginning characters on Mac and Linux", and "Monitoring more than 10,000 folders on Linux" sections in this help article.
Interesting to know about the details.
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