From 090ce00afc019e02b9f591e3a78ad194c67af6e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Craig-Wood Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 13:52:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify Dropbox docs on mod times - fixes #345 --- docs/content/dropbox.md | 16 +++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/content/dropbox.md b/docs/content/dropbox.md index f2acc3527..7934fe048 100644 --- a/docs/content/dropbox.md +++ b/docs/content/dropbox.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- title: "Dropbox" description: "Rclone docs for Dropbox" -date: "2014-07-17" +date: "2016-02-21" --- Dropbox @@ -89,8 +89,18 @@ To copy a local directory to a dropbox directory called backup ### Modified time and MD5SUMs ### -Dropbox doesn't have the capability of storing modification times or -MD5SUMs so syncs will effectively have the `--size-only` flag set. +Dropbox doesn't provide the ability to set modification times in the +V1 public API, so rclone can't support modified time with Dropbox. + +This may change in the future - see these issues for details: + + * [Dropbox V2 API](https://github.com/ncw/rclone/issues/349) + * [Allow syncs for remotes that can't set modtime on existing objects](https://github.com/ncw/rclone/issues/348) + +Dropbox doesn't return any sort of checksum (MD5 or SHA1). + +Together that means that syncs to dropbox will effectively have the +`--size-only` flag set. ### Specific options ###