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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?
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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
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