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Is there a way to pause and resume Dropbox from the command line?
I'm running Dropbox as a normal installation (no Windows Service)
I don't want to KILL or freeze the Dropbox process. I want it to go to 'Suspended' mode like it does when clicking on 'Pause syncing'.
NOTE: You'll likely need an elevated command prompt (right click => "Run as Administrator") to execute this command
the sc command is what you want, specifically sc delete
C:\Users\Jeff>sc delete
DESCRIPTION:
Deletes a service entry from the registry.
If the service is running, or another process has an
open handle to the service, the service is simply marked
for deletion.
USAGE:
sc delete [service name]
You can do couple of things:
Best Answer
It appears that Dropbox on Windows does not offer command line options to pause and resume.
What I found effective is to actually suspend the Dropbox process. One way to do that is to use sysinternals utility pssuspend
Once that's available in the default search path, one can issue commands from the commandline like
to suspend the Dropbox process and
to resume it.
At the beginning I was worried that Dropbox would fail to synchronize files changed while Dropbox process was suspended but it seems that the file-system change notifications are queued up correctly.