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noureldeen77
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4 years ago

scheuled sync

can i schedule my dropbox to sync files in certain time weekly...for example syncing starts every sunday at 10 pm?

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    Rich
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    4 years ago
    noureldeen77 wrote:

    can i schedule my dropbox to sync files in certain time weekly...for example syncing starts every sunday at 10 pm?

    No. As long as Dropbox is running, it will sync files as needed. The only way to do this would be to use a task scheduler to start and stop the Dropbox application as needed.

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