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Even though, there is a command line interface on linux (which has start, stop and, soon, pause options), there seems to be no equivalent feature on windows nor on mac. This feature should be easily ...
Things would be better and easy if we have dropbox cli in windows like we have in Linux. "dropbox status", "dropbox start", "dropbox stop" are the top three command, but the others commands are very usefull too.
I have a script to shutdown my linux workstation when dropbox is up to date, a script to automaticaly ignore too big files, and other routines too. Unfortunatelly it is impossible to do in windows because there is no way to know dropbox status or include/ignore files and folders by command line.