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JayCnCy
Explorer | Level 3
6 years ago
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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...
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  • sombrafam's avatar
    sombrafam
    6 years ago

    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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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
6 years ago

Usually Dropbox folder don't have to be removed and all the time I took care to keep your files in safe. In such a case we can apply some "force":

dropbox stop; rm -rf ~/Dropbox ~/.dropbox ~/.dropbox-dist; dropbox start -i

Try the above and let's hope everything will be fine. :wink: Dropbox will asks you again to confirm device connection. You can (and I advise you do it) unlink in advance.

Good luck.

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robromijnders
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

Solved the issue for me (icw the chattr and chmod commands above). Thanks!

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