Tools for parsing Dropbox configuration and cache files

Dropbox Reader is a suite of command-line tools for parsing configuration and cache files associated with the Dropbox cloud storage software. These tools can run on Windows, Macintosh, and Linux systems.

Dropbox Reader consists of six Python scripts:

read_config script outputs the contents of the Dropbox config.db file in human-readable form. This includes the user’s registered e-mail address and Dropbox identifier, software version information, and a list of the most-recently-changed files.

read_filecache_config script outputs configuration information from the Dropbox filecache.db file. This includes information about shared directories that are attached to the user’s Dropbox account.

read_filejournal script outputs information about Dropbox synchronized files stored in the filecache.db file. This includes local and server-side metadata and a list of block hashes for each Dropbox-synchronized file.

read_sigstore script outputs information from the Dropbox sigstore.db file, which is an additional source of block hashes.

hash_blocks script produces a block hash list for any file. This block hash list can be compared to the block hashes from read_filejournal or read_sigstore.

dropbox_contains_file script hashes one or more files (as per hash_blocks) and compares the resulting block hash list to the files listed in filecache.db (as per read_filejournal) and reports whether the files are partially or exactly the same as any Dropbox-synchronized files.