NOTE: This method you do NOT need to install Dropbox, but rather design scripts to push, pull, email, etc. If anyone would be so kind to convert or create this functionality using Powershell, I know the community would appreciate it. One is to use dropbox_uploader.sh and run a dedicated instance of Linux in a VM or run within Cygwin on Windows, but it can be a pain to get this working on Windows depending on what you want it to do. There are other UNSUPPORTED options that WORK GREAT (So far). The downside to this is that there may be a learning curve to write such a program plus the time cost to do such a thing. The next option is to write your own program to do what you want it to do utilizing Dropbox using their latest API. This is the exact REQUIRED method to make changes like selective sync even if you follow the instructions above making your own service. If you need to make a change, then de-register the service and run it as the user, make the changes and then convert it back to running as a service. The downside is that the configuration of the client MUST be done as the installed user, then converted to a service. First and foremost because it's NOT SUPPORTED ON WINDOWS SERVER, proceed at your own risk knowing that IT WILL occasionally not work and may need a reboot or even a re-installation.Ī paid solution is boxifier, which does exactly the same result as above to wrap it as a system service. I've found several workarounds though that may help you out. I've called Dropbox support on this and they just say run it at your own risk because it's not supported on servers and they cannot guarantee that it will work because it's not supported. Dropbox is designed to be an application ran by an actual user.

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