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samschott / maestral

Open-source Dropbox client for macOS and Linux
https://maestral.app
MIT License
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macOS tags are not preserved when synced with Maestral #590

Open christophe999 opened 2 years ago

christophe999 commented 2 years ago

Describe the bug On MacOS with Maestro, tag a synced file. The tag metadata is not synced.

To Reproduce Tag a sync file. Check on another computer, the tag is lost.

Expected behaviour With the dropbox client, tags are preserved.

System: Installed from the DMG file. My main Python does not have the QT modules.

Additional context

samschott commented 2 years ago

Yeah, this is a known limitation. The public Dropbox API does not allow querying for or setting some filesystem-specific metadata such as tags. Their private API does allow this, therefore reserving such capabilities for their own client. I've flagged it as a feature request but its unlikely that they will change this soon, if at all.

christophe999 commented 2 years ago

Thanks @samschott I understand you are limited by the public API. Except for this particular requirement of mine, Maestro is the perfect client IMHO. Congrat and thanks to the contributors.