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Clarify Dropbox docs on mod times - fixes #345

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Nick Craig-Wood 2016-02-21 13:52:00 +00:00
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title: "Dropbox"
description: "Rclone docs for Dropbox"
date: "2014-07-17"
date: "2016-02-21"
---
<i class="fa fa-dropbox"></i> Dropbox
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### 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 ###