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Igal Tabachnik's avatar
Igal Tabachnik
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10 years ago

Control selective sync programmatically

Hello, I'm looking for a way to control selective sync programmatically? There's a certain folder I want to sync, for example, in certain hours of the day. With a cron job, I could instruct select...
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Steve M.
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10 years ago

If you're asking about whether you can control the "selective sync" feature of the Dropbox desktop client programmatically, the answer is no. We don't provide an API to control the behavior of the desktop client.

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