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Dropbox not syncing Ubuntu 18.04 LTS dropbox v87.4.138
Dear Community,
I have been using Dropbox for a while on my laptop running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Now, I am using the dropbox client v87.4.148 and the app seems ok apart from the syncing issue.
The logo on the right top corner of the desktop is showing the updating wheel, when I click on it I see syncing and I have the opportunity to stop the sync. However, the folder remains empty.
Anyone has experienced this before ?
And by the way, happy new year !
Best,
JayCnCy
The hint to remove the syn links worked to me! I have removed all symbolic links and now my folder is syncing again. Thanks!!
# find the files: find . -type l # delete them find . -type l -exec rm {} \;
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What shows Nautilus for particular folder and not only? Is there something in process of sync? If the state isn't clear still, you can try unlink and relink back to your account and also try fix possible permission issues there.
ADD: Possible commands to fix some permission issues:
sudo chattr -R -i "$HOME/Dropbox" sudo chown -R "$USER" "$HOME/Dropbox" chmod -R u+rw ~/Dropbox
Note that Dropbox folder path point to default position. If you have changed this path, make appropriate corrections above, before run.
Thank you for your reply.
I did try the following things:
- remove and setup dropbox again
- log out and log in again
- pause/resume syncing
The folder is the default one, nothing seems to change.
Dropbox no longer works for Linux, generally. The company claims that it will work for very specific distributions. If it happens to work for other distributions, that would be a coincidence and not reliable. This seems to have been an arbitrary change in Dropbox policy. If one or more of the computers you use is a Linux computer, you should probably use a different syncing service.
The hint to remove the syn links worked to me! I have removed all symbolic links and now my folder is syncing again. Thanks!!
# find the files: find . -type l # delete them find . -type l -exec rm {} \;
