andrey_v_markelov Dropboxer

You might want to try dbxcli for this. It supports Dropbox file operations from the terminal, including upload/download, piping, shared links, and JSON output for scripting. Examples: dbxcli ls / dbxcli put local.txt /remote.txt dbxcli get /remote.txt - dbxcli share-link create /remote.txt dbxcli --output=json ls /

This looks like it was an app-level issue and Dropbox said it should be working again. If you still see it today, update and re-authenticate: brew upgrade dbxcli dbxcli logout dbxcli login

dbxcli does not control Dropbox desktop sync, so it does not have a pause/resume syncing option. It is a command-line tool for individual Dropbox API operations like put, get, ls, etc. You can stop a running transfer and run the command again later, but there is no background sync queue in dbxcli to pause or resume.

For Dropbox paths with spaces, quote the path so your shell passes it as one argument: dbxcli get "/folder name/file name with spaces.txt" "./file name with spaces.txt"

dbxcli put needs the full destination file path, not just the folder. dbxcli put TODO.txt /humility/TODO.txt