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Even though, there is a command line interface on linux (which has start, stop and, soon, pause options), there seems to be no equivalent feature on windows nor on mac. This feature should be easily ...
There's currently no good reliable option for interacting with Dropbox from the CLI from Windows.
In Linux there's Dropbox-Uploader which is a bash script that works great and uses API V2, however to use on Windows you need to load Cygwin and it's cumbersome for scripting.
There are a couple of projects that I've stumbled across for Windows, but the only one I've found to work will be EOL soon. Dropbox should create an official Windows CLI solutions that would allow you to perform basic tasks for the purpose of being scripted.
dbxcli - in beta and partially works.
PneumaticTube - Used API V1 so it will stop working soon, however it works perfectly now.
dbxcli is v3 as of Jan 30, 2019... a lot more features and fixes since 2017