nextcloud / nextcloud/integration_dropbox

Lacking documentation explaining what tool actually does

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Description

Does it preserve the folder structure?
Does it copy the files or move them (i.e. are the files left behind for data safety)?
Is there a post-transfer verification process that is run, perhaps doing a hash of each file, providing confidence that the files have been transferred correctly without me having to do that for 127,947 different files manually?
Does it preserve the file version history for each file so previous versions can be recovered on Nextcloud, once Dropbox is retired?

Having something that describes what the tool does (and does not do) would lend confidence to those who want to entrust their data to it

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Research direction

Start by examining the Dropbox integration's documented or observable transfer behavior, focusing on folder structure, copy versus move semantics, post-transfer verification, and file version history. Done means user-facing documentation clearly answers each question and explains what the tool does and does not preserve.

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Assessment

Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
38/100

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