Add a setting NO_UPLOAD
obirider opened this issue · 5 comments
It would be great to have a setting (docker environment variable) NO_UPLOAD. If the setting is set to true, then the client will never upload changed files. This way I could restrict other applications from changing / manipulating files in the cloud.
Thanks for your suggestion @obirider!
How would that work? Is that something the default Dropbox client already supports?
This project is merely a "wrapper" (so to speak) to make the official Dropbox client available in a Docker container. It does not modify the Dropbox client in any significant way.
Oh I see, I think the offical Dropbox client doesn't have such a feature. Other file syncronization tools/clouds (ex. Onedrive, https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive) have similar possibilities where a setting --download-only indicates, that the local folder will be updated from the remote folder but not vice versa.
I see. I'm sorry about that but since the Dropbox client is being installed as a binary directly from Dropbox itself, it cannot be modified in such a way.
You do have access to the Dropbox command line switches though. Maybe the exclude feature is enough?
According to documentation exclude is to stop sycronization in both directions not only to stop the upload.
Thank you anyway