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An_Laoch
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7 years ago
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Desktop icon not appearing in Cinnamon on Linux Mint 19.1

After upgrade from Linux Mint 19.0 "Sarah" to Linux Mint 19.1 "Tessa" the Dropbox icon no longer shows on the Cinnamon desktop panel . To fix this problem I carried out the following steps. 1)  Stop...
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  • PabloBoull's avatar
    PabloBoull
    7 years ago

    Thank you, Walter, for your kind answer!

    I guess I made a mess somewhere, so I installed everything again, from scratch (including OS Mint 19.1 itself on my Mac) and everything is fine now.

    Regards.

     

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Walter
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7 years ago

Thanks for the tips An_Laoch - most appreciated!

Happy New Year to you and your family too.

Cheers!

  • PabloBoull's avatar
    PabloBoull
    Helpful | Level 5
    7 years ago

    It did not work for me. After steps 1 and 2, I never got an indicator con my desktop panel. I did step 4 and restarted, to no avail. I already put on suppert for indicators on my system preferences.

    Is there another way of selecting which folders to sync? Im running out of space on my macbook.

     

    Mint 19.1 fresh install. Thank you for your advice!

    • Walter's avatar
      Walter
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      7 years ago

      Sorry to hear that PabloBoull - even though Mint is not officially supported, I'm going to take a guess here and imagine that this is caused due to some missing libraries; have you made sure you're meeting all of our minimum requirements as per the page below?

      https://www.dropbox.com/help/desktop-web/system-requirements

      • PabloBoull's avatar
        PabloBoull
        Helpful | Level 5
        7 years ago

        Thank you, Walter, for your kind answer!

        I guess I made a mess somewhere, so I installed everything again, from scratch (including OS Mint 19.1 itself on my Mac) and everything is fine now.

        Regards.

         

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