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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 transferable. I see no technical reasons why this cannot be possible (especially to mac), is there any?
Post to support this feature request.
I use batch script everyday to automate some minor but important tasks, some involving Dropbox. I've been wanting this feature for maybe a year now.
A command line interface that can sync, pause, and check status would be greatly appreciated.
There's currently no good reliable option for interacting with Dropbox from the CLI from Windows.
In Linux there's Dropbox-Uploader which is a bash script that works great and uses API V2, however to use on Windows you need to load Cygwin and it's cumbersome for scripting.
There are a couple of projects that I've stumbled across for Windows, but the only one I've found to work will be EOL soon. Dropbox should create an official Windows CLI solutions that would allow you to perform basic tasks for the purpose of being scripted.
dbxcli - in beta and partially works.
PneumaticTube - Used API V1 so it will stop working soon, however it works perfectly now.
dbxcli is v3 as of Jan 30, 2019... a lot more features and fixes since 2017
Hi,
I need just stop syncing or stop Dropbox app from script to be sure that during backup it would not change the files. Any solution?
Another reason for command line usage is "Locky" and all the other encryption viruses going around at the moment. I don't have experiences with it (and I'm glad about this!) and don't know how the dropbox syncronization deals with it. But I guess that for protection of data a batch-based linking and dislinking of the dropbox connection is very helpful.
I would like to import videos not on dropbox but direct to videos libraries, canI do it and how do I do it.
+1
dirty workaround for start/stop function could be:
stop: taskkill /f /im dropbox.exe /t
start: dropbox.exe
maybe this is helpful
I request for 'exit' command CLI-wise.
My dropbox frequently stuck while syncing, thus I want to make some script to restart dropbox every hour.
I would like to see a the equivalent of a "dropbox status" in Windows and OSX.
Would love this.
Agree, I would love this. Would help me to save mobile data when tethering my phone (I would create a script to automatically pause Dropbox when tethering).
+1 for being able to view the sync status via CLI.
