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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="fab fa-dropbox"></i> Dropbox
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---------------------------------
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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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[snip]
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XX / Dropbox
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\ "dropbox"
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[snip]
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Storage> dropbox
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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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--------------------
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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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--------------------
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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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### Dropbox for business ###
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Rclone supports Dropbox for business and Team Folders.
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When using Dropbox for business `remote:` and `remote:path/to/file`
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will refer to your personal folder.
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If you wish to see Team Folders you must use a leading `/` in the
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path, so `rclone lsd remote:/` will refer to the root and show you all
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Team Folders and your User Folder.
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You can then use team folders like this `remote:/TeamFolder` and
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`remote:/TeamFolder/path/to/file`.
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A leading `/` for a Dropbox personal account will do nothing, but it
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will take an extra HTTP transaction so it should be avoided.
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### Modified time and Hashes ###
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Dropbox supports modified times, but the only way to set a
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modification time is to re-upload the file.
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This means that if you uploaded your data with an older version of
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rclone which didn't support the v2 API and modified times, rclone will
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decide to upload all your old data to fix the modification times. If
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you don't want this to happen use `--size-only` or `--checksum` flag
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to stop it.
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Dropbox supports [its own hash
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type](https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/content-hash) which
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is checked for all transfers.
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#### Restricted filename characters
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| Character | Value | Replacement |
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| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
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| NUL | 0x00 | ␀ |
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| / | 0x2F | ／ |
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| DEL | 0x7F | ␡ |
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| \ | 0x5C | ＼ |
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File names can also not end with the following characters.
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These only get replaced if they are last character in the name:
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| Character | Value | Replacement |
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| --------- |:-----:|:-----------:|
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| SP | 0x20 | ␠ |
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Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be [replaced](/overview/#invalid-utf8),
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as they can't be used in JSON strings.
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<!--- autogenerated options start - DO NOT EDIT, instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/dropbox/dropbox.go then run make backenddocs -->
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### Standard Options
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Here are the standard options specific to dropbox (Dropbox).
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#### --dropbox-client-id
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Dropbox App Client Id
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Leave blank normally.
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- Config: client_id
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- Env Var: RCLONE_DROPBOX_CLIENT_ID
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- Type: string
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- Default: ""
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#### --dropbox-client-secret
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Dropbox App Client Secret
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Leave blank normally.
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- Config: client_secret
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- Env Var: RCLONE_DROPBOX_CLIENT_SECRET
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- Type: string
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- Default: ""
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### Advanced Options
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Here are the advanced options specific to dropbox (Dropbox).
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#### --dropbox-chunk-size
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Upload chunk size. (< 150M).
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Any files larger than this will be uploaded in chunks of this size.
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Note that chunks are buffered in memory (one at a time) so rclone can
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deal with retries. Setting this larger will increase the speed
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slightly (at most 10% for 128MB in tests) at the cost of using more
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memory. It can be set smaller if you are tight on memory.
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- Config: chunk_size
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- Env Var: RCLONE_DROPBOX_CHUNK_SIZE
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- Type: SizeSuffix
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- Default: 48M
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#### --dropbox-impersonate
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Impersonate this user when using a business account.
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- Config: impersonate
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- Env Var: RCLONE_DROPBOX_IMPERSONATE
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- Type: string
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- Default: ""
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#### --dropbox-encoding
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This sets the encoding for the backend.
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See: the [encoding section in the overview](/overview/#encoding) for more info.
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- Config: encoding
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- Env Var: RCLONE_DROPBOX_ENCODING
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- Type: MultiEncoder
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- Default: Slash,BackSlash,Del,RightSpace,InvalidUtf8,Dot
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<!--- autogenerated options stop -->
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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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attempts 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 dropbox:dir` followed by an `rclone rmdir dropbox:dir`.
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### Get your own Dropbox App ID ###
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When you use rclone with Dropbox in its default configuration you are using rclone's App ID. This is shared between all the rclone users.
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Here is how to create your own Dropbox App ID for rclone:
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1. Log into the [Dropbox App console](https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps/create) with your Dropbox Account (It need not
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to be the same account as the Dropbox you want to access)
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2. Choose an API => Usually this should be `Dropbox API`
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3. Choose the type of access you want to use => Full Dropbox or App Folder
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4. Name your App
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5. Click the button `Create App`
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6. Find the `App key` and `App secret` Use these values in rclone config to add a new remote or edit an existing remote.
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