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reiner_rosin
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

Forcing Dropbox to synchronize?

I have some trouble synchronizing a particular file on Windows 10. It's a database file of Filemaker Pro - the file is opened and in use the entire day. At evening Filemaker Pro is closed and the fil...
  • Rich's avatar
    4 years ago

    reiner_rosin wrote:

    I wonder if there is a way to force Dropbox to do the sync? It should be done within the batch file


    No, that's not possible. There's no way to force Dropbox to sync. It just syncs automatically while it's open and when there isn't a lock on the files due to them being in use. As soon as your file is closed, Dropbox should index it and sync it if needed.

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