<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Try this:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">A shell script to programmatically "pause" and "un-pause" Dropbox on Mac OS X</font><br>
</div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://github.com/tjluoma/dropbox-pause-unpause">https://github.com/tjluoma/dropbox-pause-unpause</a><br>
</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">You could use AppleScript or Automator to launch this shell script.</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">It's unfortunate that Dropbox does not provide a CLI on OS X to programmatically interact with it the way they do on Linux.</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">-- Rich</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Herbert Schulz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com" target="_blank">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On Dec 20, 2013, at 12:47 PM, Louis Talman <<a href="mailto:talmanl@gmail.com">talmanl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> If you don't want Dropbox to sync, just turn it off while you're working on something with TeX. You can still work on the local copy. When you're done, turn it back on.<br>
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</div>Howdy,<br>
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Is there a way to tell DropBox to suspend and later start up syncing via an AppleScript or some other scripting language. I don't see an AppleScript Dictionary for DropBox. It would be nice to automate this sort of thing in an adaptation of TeXShop's latexmk engines.<br>
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Good Luck,<br>
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Herb Schulz<br>
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)<br>
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