Control Dropbox from Linux Terminal

If a remote PC with the graphical Dropbox client isn’t syncing, it may be due to a reboot where the Dropbox dæmon didn’t restart because there was no remote login to the graphical desktop. Dropbox can be remotely restarted over SSH with the command

dropbox start

(no & needed)

More Dropbox Linux Terminal commands can be found here.

When starting Dropbox this way, the Dropbox dæmon will stop when logging out over SSH. Therefore, ensure that when issuing the command over SSH

dropbox status

the reply is

Up to date

before disconnecting from the remote PC SSH session.