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Do I have to reinstall Dropbox every time I do a software update on my Linux Fedora 42?
I'm running Dropbox on Fedora 42 (Linux). Each time I do a software update for the computer, this warning shows when I log in:
Do I really have to reinstall Dropbox each time? This is confusing...
Dropbox is running fine now. I think the answer (or workable workaround) is to click OK on the prompt that comes up (see image at top of thread) or run 'dropbox start -i'.
(I got an email notification that AugustusHarbor posted a useful comment two days ago, but for some reason it's not showing here in the thread....)
Neal
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Community ManagerHi Beatboxerâ,
If your permissions are 755 the whole way down, could you verify that your account and group are both listed as the owner, as well as the owner of the ~/.dropbox-dist directory itself?
NealCommunity Manager
Community ManagerHi Beatboxerâ,
Just a heads up, we had to spam your other thread as it's about the same issue and our Community Guidelines state that you should only have one post per issue.
If you could get back to me on my last comment, I''ll continue to assist.
Is this what you want? (Sorry I didn't get back. Been tied up.)
eric@fedora:~$ ls -l ~/.dropbox-dist
total 8
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 eric eric 103 Aug 12 06:45 dropboxd
drwxrwxr-x. 1 eric eric 2856 Aug 13 18:27 dropbox-lnx.x86_64-230.4.8797
-rw-rw-r--. 1 eric eric 10 Aug 12 06:45 VERSIONJust to review where we are: It seemed to me that after my computer was updated, Dropbox would need to be re-installed. That was often the case, anyway. Just now I wanted to reboot, and Fedora wanted to run updates. After the updates, I ran 'dropbox start,' and the terminal told me "dropbox is already running." So maybe there's a random flukiness going on, and I just fall back to running 'dropbox start -i' when necessary.
This is what was updated just now:
Thanks.
(PS: I can't remember what was in the other thread and how it could have been on the same topic. It may have been about my difficulty installing the dropbox plugin for Nemo. That seems quite a different topic.)- Neal
Hi Beatboxerâ,
No worries at all and apologies if I wasn't clear (my bad!), I also need the permissions for the ~/.dropbox-dist folder itself. It looks like the permissions there might be messed up, if sudo is needed to run tree in there.
I thought the other thread was about my difficulties installing the dropbox plugin for nemo, which seems a different issue, not a second post on the issue in this thread.
Is that any chance to resurrect that thread? I had included a lot of detail about what didn't work that I can't reproduce.
