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What can I install on Dropbox Client Windows 7 to log Date and Time of Pause and Resume Sync?
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...
- 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.
Greg-DB
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Dropbox StaffUnfortunately, 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.
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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