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rschuber
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3 years ago

how to trigger a folder sync programmatically?

I have a Daemon on my local device (mac) that processes some files and writes the output to a dropbox folder. It successfully runs and writes the data to dropbox, but the dropbox folder does not sync...
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Greg-DB
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3 years ago

rschuber Здравко is correct; Dropbox doesn't officially support a way of programmatically controlling the desktop client like that. You can use the Dropbox API instead though, which communicates directly with the Dropbox servers instead of the local Dropbox client. The Getting Started and File Access guides may be helpful

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