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    <title>topic Re: Sync application-defined alternate data stream in Dropbox API Support &amp; Feedback</title>
    <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sync-application-defined-alternate-data-stream/m-p/401629#M21973</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;Yes, you can certainly use &lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers" target="_self"&gt;the&amp;nbsp;Dropbox API&lt;/A&gt; to upload and download files. That's our officially recommended&amp;nbsp;and supported interface, and there are also some &lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation" target="_self"&gt;SDKs&lt;/A&gt; you can use to make that easier.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;As for the data format, that's up to you, but you could use a SQLite file, or a file containing&amp;nbsp;JSON, or separate individual files; whatever makes sense for your app.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2020 21:09:56 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2020-03-09T21:09:56Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Sync application-defined alternate data stream</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sync-application-defined-alternate-data-stream/m-p/401582#M21968</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi, I'm developing a Windows application that uses an alternate data stream to store file metadata.&amp;nbsp; Is there a reliable, supported method for having this alternate data stream sync over Dropbox?&amp;nbsp; According to &lt;A href="https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integrations/sync-uploads/extended-attributes" target="_self"&gt;this&lt;/A&gt; page, Dropbox has some designated alternate data streams that it syncs.&amp;nbsp; I was wondering if we're allowed to use one of those.&amp;nbsp; Alternatively, would it be possible for Dropbox to add a designated alternate data stream that applications are free to use?&amp;nbsp; Thank you for any information.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2020 21:01:57 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sync-application-defined-alternate-data-stream/m-p/401582#M21968</guid>
      <dc:creator>amt528</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-03-09T21:01:57Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Sync application-defined alternate data stream</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sync-application-defined-alternate-data-stream/m-p/401602#M21969</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;The&amp;nbsp;Dropbox desktop client does sync those particular extended attributes/Alternate Data Streams as listed in the help center article you linked to, but I can't&amp;nbsp;recommend relying on those for syncing your own application's metadata with Dropbox. That's not meant as an official programmatic interface (like &lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers" target="_self"&gt;the&amp;nbsp;Dropbox API&lt;/A&gt; itself is, though that doesn't offer access to&amp;nbsp;extended attributes/Alternate Data Streams). Likewise, there isn't a way ask the Dropbox desktop client to additionally sync a different one, but I'll pass this along as a feature request for a good solution here, such as for&amp;nbsp;Dropbox to offer syncing one for this purpose. I can't promise if or when something like that would be implemented and officially supported though. Apologies I don't have better news for you!&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2020 18:36:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sync-application-defined-alternate-data-stream/m-p/401602#M21969</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-03-09T18:36:47Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Sync application-defined alternate data stream</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sync-application-defined-alternate-data-stream/m-p/401614#M21970</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Thank you very much for response, and I appreciate you passing along the suggestion.&amp;nbsp; Perhaps Dropbox could allow alternate data streams named something like&amp;nbsp;&lt;SPAN&gt;:com.dropbox.third-party.&amp;lt;app name&amp;gt;.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;In the meantime, do you have any suggestion on how to sync metadata on Dropbox, perhaps using a SQLite database?&amp;nbsp; (I understand that the Datastore API has been deprecated.)&amp;nbsp; In other words, let's say instead of storing metadata in an alternate data stream, you store the data in a SQLite file.&amp;nbsp; Would that work?&amp;nbsp; Or are there any better alternatives?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thank you again for your help.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2020 20:05:40 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sync-application-defined-alternate-data-stream/m-p/401614#M21970</guid>
      <dc:creator>amt528</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-03-09T20:05:40Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Sync application-defined alternate data stream</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sync-application-defined-alternate-data-stream/m-p/401629#M21973</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Yes, you can certainly use &lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers" target="_self"&gt;the&amp;nbsp;Dropbox API&lt;/A&gt; to upload and download files. That's our officially recommended&amp;nbsp;and supported interface, and there are also some &lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation" target="_self"&gt;SDKs&lt;/A&gt; you can use to make that easier.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;As for the data format, that's up to you, but you could use a SQLite file, or a file containing&amp;nbsp;JSON, or separate individual files; whatever makes sense for your app.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2020 21:09:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Sync-application-defined-alternate-data-stream/m-p/401629#M21973</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-03-09T21:09:56Z</dc:date>
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