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		judofyr on Dec 15, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: my weekend+2d project: Web hosting for Dr... I've point briefly looked at the Dropbox API, but couldn't figure it out; how do you detect when a file has changed?

iradik on Dec 15, 2011 [–]

There is no push api or list of changes at this point. You can check each directory to see if it's changed... by passing a hash to the metadata function. It will tell you if the directory has been modified in any way.

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