Controlling Smartsync from Python
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
Research direction
Start by checking the dbxcli command surface and the Dropbox documentation for SmartSync controls, since the issue does not name an implementation file or test. Done would provide a documented way to identify files by size and mark them online or local from a script, if the underlying API supports it.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Description
There was a question raised about this back in 2018 on StackOverflow here
The only respondent to that question was the mysterious Greg who said that he would "...pass this along as a feature request..."
As far as I can tell, this is still not possible. Maybe I'm wrong and just can't find it in the documentation.
Consider my use-case...
I am a photographer and I keep all my images in Dropbox. Source (original) images are typically ~30Mb each. However, when I post-process them in Photoshop, the resulting PSD file can be very large - potentially hundreds of megabytes.
What I'd like to do is programmatically navigate through my images folder(s), identify files that are larger than a certain amount (say, 50Mb) then mark those files as "online" whereas everything else could be "local".
I'm a very experienced Python programmer. The directory navigation and size identification is trivial.
Any thoughts on this?
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- Go
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