You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.

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greay
Explorer | Level 3
8 years ago

Does the new Metadata API / File Properties endpoint expose extended attributes?

Reading what's available, it seems like this is more for custom data, but I can't find anything about it preserving or reading existing data.   Specifically, I'm looking for a solution to read & wr...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    8 years ago
    Unfortunately, the Dropbox API doesn't offer the ability to read or write xattrs/macOS tags. The metadata is only the Dropbox file metadata, and the file properties are only for custom defined Dropbox templates. I'll send this along as a feature request.
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greay
Explorer | Level 3
Ah, that's a shame. As a followup, does Dropbox at least preserve xattrs across macOS & iOS?
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Greg-DB
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8 years ago

That's a matter of the Dropbox client syncing behavior, and not the API, so I'm afraid I can't offer insight on that. 

 

Please check out the other parts of the forum e.g., Find answers > Syncing and uploads, or open a support ticket, for questions for the Dropbox product itself. 

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