Dropbox, Inc.

Pranav Vishnu Ramabhadran

Nipunn Koorapati

Adam Arbree

Parker Timmerman

Sourabh Yerfule

Zihao Yang

Rishabh Jain

Maxime Larabie-Belanger

Geoffry Song

Kelson Reiss

Lisa Fan

Haynes George

Helen Lu

Sam Keller

Niklas Nordlof

Raveesh Nayar

Ken Park

Wes O'Haire

Grant Mathews

Marian Oman

Julia Weingardt

Royce Ausburn

Yuyang Guo

Gautam Gupta

Jonathan Chien

David Aeschlimann

Bryan Guillemette

Michael Nilsson

Stanimir Pehlivanov

The present technology pertains to restoring a directory to a state prior to a past synchronization event. A content management system can present an interface including history of synchronization events for a directory, and a user can select to restore a directory to a state prior to any one of the past synchronization events.

Restoring a directory to a state prior to a past synchronization event

Technologies for implementing customized behaviors for content items are provided. An example method can include receiving, from a user account registered with a content management system, a request to access a content item managed by the content management system for the user account, the content item having one or more behaviors configured for an attribute associated with the content item and/or the content item associated with the attribute; obtaining, from a representation of a remote state of content items associated with the user account, metadata defining the attribute associated with the content item; based on the metadata, determining the one or more behaviors configured for the attribute and/or the content item associated with the attribute; and applying the one or more behaviors to the content item.

Per-node metadata for custom node behaviors across platforms

The present technology can move operating system folders into a sync folder of a cross platform content management system, and redirect the operating system to look for the OS folders in the sync folder. The present technology also provides an invariant checker to make sure that another application has not moved the OS folders after they have been placed in the sync folder, and provides solutions when the OS folders are moved out of the sync folder of the content management system. Additionally, when OS folders for multiple client devices are in the sync folder on the content management system, the present technology can provide a mechanism to make the content items in an OS folder on a first client device also sync into an OS folder on second client device.

Binding local device folders to a content management system for synchronization

The present technology pertains to synchronizing contents of a directory external to a synchronized directory by a content management system. The content management system is configured to synchronize only objects in the synchronized directory. Accordingly, the present technology creates an anchor object that represents the directory external to the synchronized directory within the synchronized directory. The anchor object includes special attributes that indicate to the synchronization client that the anchor object represents an external directory, and allows the contents of that directory to be synchronized directly to a server on the content management system without first storing the contents of the external directory on the hard drive of the client device.

Synchronizing an external location

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Pranav Vishnu Ramabhadran