Dropbox Smart Sync : Local/Online

Is there a way to use Applescript or Terminal commands to make a file Loca or Online?

Thanks,
Brian

Hello @Xacto - welcome to the forum.

As far as I know, there is no way to use an AppleScript or Terminal command to ‘force’ a file to be online-only or local-only.

However, if you try to ‘read’ the file in Terminal, it will cause Dropbox to download the file locally if it is online only.

So, for example, if you wanted to make ~/Dropbox/Some File Here.pdf local, you could do something like:


cat ~/Dropbox/Some\ File\ Here.pdf >/dev/null 

which will force it to download.

I am not sure this actually helps, but unfortunately the Dropbox app for Mac is not automation friendly at all and never has been. Clearly they don’t think it’s important, unfortunately.

Thanks, that will work for part of it.