Dropbox, Inc.

Zihao Yang

Nipunn Koorapati

Pranav Vishnu Ramabhadran

Parker Timmerman

Adam Arbree

Sourabh Yerfule

Geoffry Song

Kelson Reiss

Lisa Fan

Royce Ausburn

Yuyang Guo

Gautam Gupta

Jonathan Chien

Rishabh Jain

David Aeschlimann

Bryan Guillemette

Michael Nilsson

Stanimir Pehlivanov

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 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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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Zihao Yang