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BigSneeze
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2 years ago

Headless MacOS Installation and Restart - have recent Dropbox updates enabled this feature?

I am running a Mac Mini with MacOS Catalina as a web server and would like to administer this server completely through SSH access.   Syncing files via Dropbox would be convenient for Photos and so...
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Walter
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2 years ago

Hi there BigSneeze, sorry for the late response and thanks for your patience while we were looking into this internally.

 

We heard back from the team and it seems that GUI access is required for login while remote login via the terminal is not supported. However, once a user logs into their Dropbox on this server, they shouldn't need to do so again. 

 

Even if there are power outages for example, you'll still be logged in. As long as the same server instance comes back online, you can start the Dropbox app through the terminal and it will still be logged in.

 

I hope this information helps! 

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