What can I install on Dropbox Client Windows 7 to log Date and Time of Pause and Resume Sync?

[lrobertson]

I have a remote location (Dropbox Client 1gb/sec connection) that I can not access and it automatically drops a 3gb file into my dropbox 2 times a month.  This Dropbox client has LogMeIn installed on it by the system admin. The problem is that I suspect this admin is using LogMeIn to remotely Pause Syncing by remoting into the Dropbox Client Computer thus delaying my ability to edit and publish this 3gb file up to 4 days.  My testing on all other client computers (4 all together that I do have access to and he does not) all sync this 3gb file in less than 2 minutes on a 1gb/sec connection.  Is there some kind of script I can run run on either the server or the client that would detect if syncing has paused or resumed logging the date and time?

Please Help!

[Greg-DB · Accepted solution]

Unfortunately, no, Dropbox doesn't offer any sort of official interface that can be used to programmatically check/change the syncing status like this. I'll send it along as a feature request, but I can't make any promises as to if/when that would be implemented.

[lrobertson]

Thanks for the information I hope some day it will be a feature where the client sends logging information back to the server.

In the mean time I am going to start writing a Windows Service in Visual Basic 2011 that will use the 

System.IO.FileSystemWatcher()

to monitor the Dropbox folder on the client and write to the eventlog and a seperate log file.  This will require getting access to the computer to install the  service but I will find a way.

The idea is to fire events for change, newly added and deleted files recursively in the dropbox directory.  In the newly added event, I will test the file lock in a loop to see if it has finished copying from the source to the dropbox folder and log the time/date then set a timer to count a reasonable amount of time that it would take of file of that filesize to sync and log that as well if the time was exceeded.  I'm sure I will need to consider more and will cross that bridge when I get there.

Thanks again