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mraureliusr's avatar
mraureliusr
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8 years ago

'dropbox is not a package'

So I'm trying to get started with backup-and-restore.py. I've run pip3 install --user dropbox, and the output of find /usr -name dropbox is  $ find /usr -name dropbox /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packag...
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Greg-DB
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8 years ago
It looks like you've named your own file "dropbox.py", which is confusing the Python import. Try renaming it to something else instead. (Also, be sure to delete any dropbox.pyc of your own left over.)

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