Dropbox is a cloud storage provider. Fivetran supports syncing files from your Dropbox account to your destination. You can sync multiple files as unique tables to your destination.
IMPORTANT: Dropbox connectors created before October 7, 2021, sync multiple files into a single destination table.
Featureslink
| Feature Name | Supported | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Capture Deletes | ||
| Custom Data | check | All tables and fields |
| Data Blocking | ||
| Column Hashing | ||
| Re-sync | check | Connector level |
| History | ||
| API Configurable | check | |
| Priority-first sync | ||
| dbt Package |
Setup guidelink
Follow our step-by-step Dropbox setup guide to connect Dropbox with your destination using Fivetran connectors.
Sync overviewlink
The Dropbox connector is a Magic Folder connector. We retrieve all the files from the folder that you specify into your destination. Each file is synced as a separate table in the destination.
We only sync the files inside the specified folder. We ignore nested folders.
Schema informationlink
We use the file name (without the extension) as the destination table name. For example, a file called sample.csv is synced as SAMPLE table.
If we find more than one file of the same name, but with different extensions in the folder, we check the last modified dates of the files and sync only the most recently modified file.
Sync limitationlink
For Dropbox Business accounts, you can only sync folders in your home namespace. We don’t support syncing root folders in team spaces.