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title: "Dropbox"
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description: "Rclone docs for Dropbox"
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date: "2016-02-21"
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---
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<i class="fa fa-dropbox"></i> Dropbox
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Paths are specified as `remote:path`
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Dropbox paths may be as deep as required, eg
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`remote:directory/subdirectory`.
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The initial setup for dropbox involves getting a token from Dropbox
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which you need to do in your browser. `rclone config` walks you
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through it.
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Here is an example of how to make a remote called `remote`. First run:
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rclone config
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This will guide you through an interactive setup process:
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```
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n) New remote
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d) Delete remote
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q) Quit config
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e/n/d/q> n
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name> remote
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Type of storage to configure.
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Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
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1 / Amazon Drive
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\ "amazon cloud drive"
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2 / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph)
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\ "s3"
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3 / Backblaze B2
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\ "b2"
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4 / Dropbox
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\ "dropbox"
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5 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
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\ "google cloud storage"
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6 / Google Drive
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\ "drive"
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7 / Hubic
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\ "hubic"
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8 / Local Disk
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\ "local"
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9 / Microsoft OneDrive
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\ "onedrive"
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10 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
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\ "swift"
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11 / Yandex Disk
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\ "yandex"
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Storage> 4
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Dropbox App Key - leave blank normally.
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app_key>
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Dropbox App Secret - leave blank normally.
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app_secret>
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Remote config
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Please visit:
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https://www.dropbox.com/1/oauth2/authorize?client_id=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&response_type=code
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Enter the code: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_XXXXXXXXXX
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[remote]
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app_key =
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app_secret =
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token = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_XXXX_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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y) Yes this is OK
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e) Edit this remote
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d) Delete this remote
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y/e/d> y
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```
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You can then use it like this,
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List directories in top level of your dropbox
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rclone lsd remote:
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List all the files in your dropbox
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rclone ls remote:
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To copy a local directory to a dropbox directory called backup
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rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
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### Modified time and MD5SUMs ###
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Dropbox doesn't provide the ability to set modification times in the
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V1 public API, so rclone can't support modified time with Dropbox.
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This may change in the future - see these issues for details:
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* [Dropbox V2 API](https://github.com/ncw/rclone/issues/349)
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* [Allow syncs for remotes that can't set modtime on existing objects](https://github.com/ncw/rclone/issues/348)
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Dropbox doesn't return any sort of checksum (MD5 or SHA1).
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Together that means that syncs to dropbox will effectively have the
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`--size-only` flag set.
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### Specific options ###
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Here are the command line options specific to this cloud storage
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system.
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#### --dropbox-chunk-size=SIZE ####
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Upload chunk size. Max 150M. The default is 128MB. Note that this
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isn't buffered into memory.
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### Limitations ###
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Note that Dropbox is case insensitive so you can't have a file called
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"Hello.doc" and one called "hello.doc".
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There are some file names such as `thumbs.db` which Dropbox can't
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store. There is a full list of them in the ["Ignored Files" section
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of this document](https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/145). Rclone will
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issue an error message `File name disallowed - not uploading` if it
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attempt to upload one of those file names, but the sync won't fail.
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If you have more than 10,000 files in a directory then `rclone purge
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dropbox:dir` will return the error `Failed to purge: There are too
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many files involved in this operation`. As a work-around do an
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`rclone delete dropbix:dir` followed by an `rclone rmdir dropbox:dir`.
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